Feminism Quotes by Emma Goldman

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

— Emma Goldman

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

— Emma Goldman

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

— Emma Goldman

true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and…

— Emma Goldman

True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

— Emma Goldman

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

— Emma Goldman

... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only…

— Emma Goldman

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity…

— Emma Goldman

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in…

— Emma Goldman

Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be…

— Emma Goldman

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself…

— Emma Goldman

Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.…

— Emma Goldman

“It may be said that because woman recognizes the awful toll she is made to pay to the Church, State, and the…

— Emma Goldman

“Woman’s demand for equal suffrage is based largely on the contention that woman must have the equal right in all affairs of…

— Emma Goldman

“The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes. She can give…

— Emma Goldman

“The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in…

— Emma Goldman