“Adults make their children suffer for the sake of appearances, or to save themselves a little trouble.”

— Kaneko Fumiko, The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman (1991), p. 89

About Kaneko Fumiko

1903 – 1926

Japanese anarchist and writer whose prison memoirs were published after her death.

“Let your children play as they please! To play freely on this earth is the one privilege nature has given to children.”

“By nature human beings should be equal.”

“The virtue and beauty of human beings is to live naturally, ungoverned by external forces.”

“A Father is a Treasure, a Brother a Comfort ; but a Friend is both.”

“Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“God setteth the solitary in families.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Go where he will, the wise man is at home, his hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”