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Dora Russell

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Also known as Dora Black, Dora Winifred Black Russell, Dora Winifred Black, Dora Winifred Russell

British writer, feminist and socialist campaigner (1894-1986)

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Works
23

Top works

  • The other bond
  • Beneath the Wave
  • Prospects of Industrial Civilisation
  • A bitter birthright
  • Out of Eden

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1942-04-02
Active to
2016-11-13
2008 universal fire victimbluesblues rockcountrycountry rockfolk

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Quotes

  • 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.
  • Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman’s individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn’t all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration.
  • Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
  • We have never yet had a Labour Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
  • 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. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
  • 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.

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