Marie Stopes

Quotes

• “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."”
• “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.”
• “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.”
• “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.”
• “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.”
• “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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Key facts

Born

Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes , ( 1880-10-15 ) 15 October 1880, Edinburgh , Scotland

Died

2 October 1958 (1958-10-02) (aged 77), Dorking , Surrey, England

Education

University of London (BSc, DSc) University of Munich (PhD)

Known for

Family planning and eugenics

Spouses

Reginald Ruggles Gates ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1911 ; annulled</span>"}]]}'>ann. 1914 ) ​ Humphrey Verdon Roe ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1918 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1935 ) ​

Children

Harry Stopes-Roe

Fields

Palaeobotany

Institutions

University of Manchester

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Image

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