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

In her will Marie Stopes left her clinic to the Eugenics Society. Personal life
Stopes had a serious relationship mainly through correspondence with Japanese botanist Kenjiro Fujii whom Marie Stopes met at the University of Munich in 1904 whilst researching her Ph. Truth about Venereal Disease.

She was never in favour of abortion arguing that prevention of conception was sufficient. She was the wife of Humphrey Verdon Roe with whom Marie Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain.