Emma Goldman Infer Quotations

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

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.