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" I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. "
Emma Goldman
Diamonds
Table
Valentine's Day
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" In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. "
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" Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. "
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" The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. "
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" I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs. "
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" Crime is naught but misdirected energy. "
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" The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. "
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" Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. "
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" I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. "
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" Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. "
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" Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? "
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" The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land. "
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" The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. "
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" Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. "
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" If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. "
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" Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. "
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" The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. "
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" On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. "
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" Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. "
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