The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

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.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

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

readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.