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"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."
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"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."

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

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

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

"We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens."

"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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