Marie Stopes
Marie Stopes
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopeswas a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 October 1880
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Every heart desires a mate.
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I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in the form of supertax ... our incomes being added together we are liable for supertax which we are refusing to pay on the grounds of morality as I consider in a Christian country it is an immoral and outrageous act to tax me because I am living in Holy matrimony instead of as my husband's mistress.
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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
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A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
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if the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.
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People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.
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The most complete human being is he or she who consciously or unconsciously obeys the profound physical laws of our being in such a way that the spirit receives as much help and as little hindrance from the body as possible.
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A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
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An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.