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Marie Stopes Quotes:

Marie Stopes quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: October 15, 1880 - October 2, 1958

Birthday: October 15

Death: October 2

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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.

Topics: Beauty, Beautiful, Women, Soul Beauty, Inspirational Beauty

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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.

source: - 1918 Married Love, ch.10.

Topics: Adventure, Men, Winning, Wooing

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

source: - Married Love ch. 5 (1918)

Topics: Curiosity, Body, Gloating

if the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.

Topics: Baby, Democracy, World

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

Topics: Civilization, Birth Control, Modern, Barbaric

Every heart desires a mate.

source: - Marie Carmichael Stopes (2015). “Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties”, p.11, the Pelican Press, London.

Topics: Heart, Desire, Mates, Hearts Desire

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.

Topics: Christian, Country, Husband

People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.

Topics: People, Silence, Darkness

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.

source: - Marie Carmichael Stopes (2015). “Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties”, p.12, the Pelican Press, London.

Topics: Law, Profound, Body

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.

Topics: Beautiful, Space, Soul

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