Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else.

Comfort is bought at too high a price.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

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.

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.