“Free love? As if love is anything but free!”

— Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love, in Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

About Emma Goldman

1869 – 1940

Lithuanian-born American anarchist and writer.

“Motherhood in the true sense should embrace all children.”

“Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.”

“Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”