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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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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

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

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

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In its most beautiful expression and sublimest manifestations, the celibate ideal has proclaimed a world-wide love, in place of the narrower human love of home and children.

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

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

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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.

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Born: October 15, 1880

Died: October 2, 1958 (aged 77)

Bio: Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights.

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