Quotes from Emma Goldman

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty.

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.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

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

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

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.