From the Archives of Feminism
February 9, 2017
Emma Goldman
“From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.”
— Emma Goldman, “Marriage and Love,” 1914
[BRIEF AND INSUFFICIENT COMMENT: Have you met many women, except those suffering from unfortunate handicaps, who are mute? A great many women excel — far more than men — at expressing their feelings and interests. As for Goldman’s comparison of women preparing for marriage to animals, need we say more about the thinking of this Marxist bully whose writings are still disseminated in institutions of “higher” education throughout the American Waste Land?]
