rotenotes

“Marriage and love have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the poles; are, in fact, antagonistic to each other.”
― Emma Goldman, Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 18961926

“Speaking of Puritanism in relation to American art, Mr. Gutzon Borglum said: “Puritanism has made us self-centered and hypocritical for so long, that sincerity and reverence for what is natural in our impulses have been fairly bred out of us, with the result that there can be neither truth nor individuality in our art.”
Mr. Borglum might have added that Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is, indeed, a gigantic panorama of eternal change. Puritanism, on the other hand, rests on a fixed and immovable conception of life; it is based on the Calvinistic idea that life is a curse, imposed upon man by the wrath of God. In order to redeem himself man must do constant penance, must repudiate every natural and healthy impulse, and turn his back on joy and beauty.”
― Emma Goldman, Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 18961926

“Soviet Russia, it must now be obvious, is an absolute despotism politically and the crassest form of state capitalism economically.”
― Emma Goldman, There Is No Communism in Russia

“Jealousy is obsessed by the sense of possession and vengeance. (...). In the past, when men and women intermingled freely without interference of law and morality, there could be no jealousy, because the latter rests upon the assumption that a certain man has an exclusive sex monopoly over a certain woman and vice-versa.”
― Emma Goldman, Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 18961926