Stopes Quotes & Sayings

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

My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent. — James D. Watson

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. — Marie Stopes

If you make the wrong decision, it's never too late to make the right one — Michael Oher

The working class must control the factories and the country — Alan Woods

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't. — Ogden Nash

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality. — Patricia Meyer Spacks

The other two are rich and noble; examples of virtue rarely make their home among people like that. — Michel De Montaigne

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

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win. — Sylvia Day

If the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having. — Marie Stopes

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,. — Douglas Brinkley

The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill ... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick. — Ronald Goldman

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

Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home. — Chellie Pingree

They also found the cocooned dragons. They had no idea that was what they were, of course. They thought ... who knows what they thought at first? Perhaps they seemed like massive sections of tree trunks. So they refer to it: wizardwood. — Robin Hobb

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

Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

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

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe. — Deval Patrick

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what. — Lady Gaga

Why was it, she sometimes wondered, that in dreams we can't do the simplest things? Like a crying puppy is standing on some broken glass and you want to pick it up and brush the shards off its pads but you can't because you're balancing a ball on your head. Or you're driving and there's this old guy on crutches and you go, to Mr. Feder, your Driver's Ed teacher, Should I swerve? And he's like, Uh, probably. But then you hear this big clunk and Feder makes a negative mark in his book. — George Saunders

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

I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in the form of supertax ... our incomes being added together we are liable for supertax which we are refusing to pay on the grounds of morality as I consider in a Christian country it is an immoral and outrageous act to tax me because I am living in Holy matrimony instead of as my husband's mistress. — Marie Stopes