We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
Dora RussellThere is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.
Dora RussellFeminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn't all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration.
Dora RussellBecause men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.
Dora RussellThe 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.
Dora Russell