Dora Russell
Dora Russell
Dora, Countess Russellwas a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth3 April 1894
lying animal path
Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.
agreement average ancient
anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.
sex fighting men
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?
creative hatred machines
I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts ...
philosophy men long
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.
running society dictator
Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.
comfort
Comfort is bought at too high a price.
religious sex teaching
There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.
party might common
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.
birth-control firsts poor
Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.
children motherhood knowing
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.
forever doe live-forever
What does one do about the dead? They live forever.
prayer answers machines
Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
car needs nuclear
One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.