Emma Goldman

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

"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"

"On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable."

"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."

"The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved."

"The most violent element in society is ignorance."

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

"To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character."

"When we can't dream any longer we die."

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