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Emma Goldman

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Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.


— Emma Goldman


#being #confronted #desires #emancipation #external

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.


— Emma Goldman


#arena #dunce #either #leaves #must

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.


— Emma Goldman


#caution #enough #enriched #foolish #idealists

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.


— Emma Goldman


#beings #dear #early #enough #feel

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.


— Emma Goldman


#anything #changed #illegal #make #voting

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.


— Emma Goldman


#industrial #politics #reflex #world

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.


— Emma Goldman


#chained #greatest #hounded #imprisoned #nevertheless

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.


— Emma Goldman


#entire #everything #expression #fabric #germ

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.


— Emma Goldman


#ever #her #hope #politics #purify

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.


— Emma Goldman


#always #keep #mouths #need #open






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After decades of obscurity Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life. Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy women's rights and social issues attracting crowds of thousands. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War Emma Goldman traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there.

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