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Marie Stopes
8 quotes
“We are not much in sympathy with the typical hustling American business man, and we have often felt compunction for him, seeing him nervous and harassed, sleeplessly, anxiously hunting dollars, and all but overshadowed by his over-dressed, extravagant and idle wife, who sometimes insists that her spiritual development necessitates that she shall have no children. Such husbands and wives are also found in this country; they are a growing produce of the upper reaches of the capitalist system. Yet such wives imagine that they are upholding women’s emancipation.”
Marie Stopes (1880–1958) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Revolting Woman in the Novel", unattributed in The Workers' Dreadnought, vol. 5, no. 33 (9 November 1918), p. 1,110, col. 3; attributed to Stopes in David Mitchell, The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity (New York…
“At sixteen I was vain because someone praised me. My father said: "You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. If you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing. Then you may be proud of it and be loved for it.”
Marie Stopes (1880–1958) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in William L. Stidger, There Are Sermons in Stories (Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1942), p. 89
“Each heart knows instinctively that it is only a mate who can give full comprehension of all the potential greatness in the soul, and have tender laughter for all the childlike wonder that lingers so enchantingly even in the white-haired.”
Marie Stopes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In its most beautiful expression and sublimest manifestations, the celibate ideal has proclaimed a world-wide love, in place of the narrower human love of home and children. Many saints and sages, reformers, and dogmatists have modeled their lives on this ideal. But such individuals cannot be taken as the standard of the race, for they are out of its main current: they are branches which may flower, but never fruit in a bodily form.”
Marie Stopes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 much help and as little hindrance from the body as possible.”
Marie Stopes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the body of the loved one's simple, sweetly colored flesh, which our animal instincts urge us to desire, there springs not only the wonder of a new bodily life, but also the enlargement of the horizon of human sympathy and the glow of spiritual understanding which one could never have attained alone.”
Marie Stopes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.”
Marie Stopes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Marie Stopes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source