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Dora Russell

"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."

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"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."

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"Children dwell in their dreams. Get them the wings and they'll fly."

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"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."

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"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."

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"Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs."

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"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."

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"I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school."

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"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."

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"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."

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"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."

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"My children deserve to have the best, and now they will."

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"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system."
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"We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens."
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"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
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"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."
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"If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker."
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"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."
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"Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary."
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"Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism."
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"You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College."
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