I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.

To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad?

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.