Dora Russell
Dora Russell
Dora, Countess Russellwas a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth3 April 1894
competition
Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
far information might poorer report withheld
The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.
accept entertainment invitation man men might permitted public receive reception
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.
half ideas john kate nursery spend studied talked took
We took John and Kate to spend half a day at the McMillan open-air nursery school, and we talked about her and studied her ideas in action.
children school government
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
running society dictator
Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.
agreement average ancient
anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.
sex fighting men
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?
comfort
Comfort is bought at too high a price.
creative hatred machines
I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts ...
party might common
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.
wisdom offering guidance
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.