Stopes Quotes

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

Marie Stopes

#3. 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

#4. 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.

Marie Stopes

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

Marie Stopes

#6. Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as real, never knowing I could feel.

Pocahontas

#7. Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

Bryan Procter

#8. Think that the external situation has also changed somewhat. The reduction of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has, in a sense, reduced how inflamed the situation on the Pakistani border regions was and is.

Mohsin Hamid

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

Marie Stopes

#10. Born on the ground. Live in the air!

Armin Houman

#11. LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage. I support it personally, and as a matter of policy and law.

Hillary Clinton

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

Marie Stopes

#13. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Marie Stopes