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
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?
christian stupid fighting
The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else.
almost carried certainly confusion necessity repression severity
Severity and repression of the old type, however, almost certainly carried with it in adolescence, disturbance, confusion and the necessity of revolt.
competition
Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
far information might poorer report withheld
The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.
accept entertainment invitation man men might permitted public receive reception
You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
children memorable knowing
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
children war believe
Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.
wisdom offering guidance
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
spring people democracy
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
knowledge our-world quests
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.
children school government
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
mean class government
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
marriage army law
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.