I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.

If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes.

Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.