Quotes About Marie Stopes

#1. Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Dora Russell

#2. And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!

Nina George

#3. 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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#4. If the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.

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

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#6. How you doing at 26 Fed?"
"I'm growing and learning, meeting new challenges with confidence and enthusiasm while developing good work ethics and people skills."
"I'm surprised they haven't fired your ass."
"Me too.

Nelson DeMille

#7. There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Isabelle Adjani

#8. Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

#9. The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able to let it go is immense.

Ruth Rudner

#10. If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.

Lily Cole

#11. I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.

Forrest Griffin

#12. Your life may not be 'picture perfect' but you have it in you to make it 'your best.' There's only one chance at life and you owe it to yourself to give it all you can.

Roopleen

#13. You said yourself they didn't hurt your girl."
Waiting, Davy asked, "How many times does a dog have to bite before you put him down?

Leif Enger

#14. Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga.

Frederick Lenz

#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. 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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