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 fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. – Emma Goldman
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action. – Emma Goldman
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. – Emma Goldman
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith