Marie Stopes Quotes

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.

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • War
  • Always
  • Human

• Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Money
  • Worth
  • Lot

• I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Person

• The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Art
  • Science

• When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Success

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• You who speak languages, you are such liars.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • You
  • Speak
  • Liars

• I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Myself
  • Commitment

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • America
  • Responsibility

• You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Know
  • Everyone
  • Mythology

• After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there!

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Song

• I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

  

  L.A. Paul
  • True
  • Science
  • Ideas

• If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Hiking

• Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Adventure
  • Head
  • Step Out

• 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
  • Together
  • Wife
  • Winning