Dora Russell

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1894 age 0

   Born

2. 1981 age 87

   CreditReds

3. 1986 age 92

   Died

• DKDiane Keaton1 title
• SRShane Rimmer1 title
• JHJerry Hardin1 title
• EHEdward Herrmann1 title
• CMChristopher Malcolm1 title
• JRJohn Ratzenberger1 title
• VSVittorio Storaro1 title
• MWM. Emmet Walsh1 title
• JNJack Nicholson1 title
• GPGeorge Plimpton1 title

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• We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.

  Dora Russell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Nothing whatever is to be gained by driving the timorous and weak by lies or compulsion into pain which they will resent and responsibility which they will evade. Everything is to be gained by training a woman in knowledge, courage, and physical strength, and leaving it then to her own instinct and her mind to tell her that to create new human beings is worth the discomfort and the suffering she must necessarily undergo. Those in whom the courage to create survives when choice is free and all the facts are known are those best fitted to bring children into the world, and breed in them eagerness and intrepidity. The others will only pass on fear and distaste for life from which individuals and the community suffer far too much already.

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• Feminists 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 Russell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

  Dora Russell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We have never yet had a Labour Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

  Dora Russell, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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. 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 Russell, CC BY-SA 4.0