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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Today's Quote...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.093512.644@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- "Women can give suffrage or the ballot no new quality, nor can she
- receive anything from it that will enhance her own qulity. Her
- development, her freedom, her independence, must come from and
- through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality and
- not as a sex commodity. Second, by refusing the right of anyone
- over her body; by refusing to bear children, unless she wants them;
- by refusing to be a servant to God, the State, society, the
- husband, the family, etc., by making her life simpler but deeper
- and richer. That is, by trying to learn the meaning and substance
- of life in all its complexities, by freeing herself from the fear
- of public opinion and public condemnation. Only that, and not the
- ballot, will set women free, will make her a force hitherto unknown
- in the world, a force for real love, for peace, for harmony; a
- force of divine fire, of life giving; a creator of free men and
- women"
-
- -Emma Goldman
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- Quoted in Z Magazine, Photo Essay by Ellen Shub, page 80,
- July/Aug. 1989 issue. For more information about Z magazine and the
- address for a subscription or sample issue, please send me email
- at: harelb@math.cornell.edu
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