“I felt that even if one did not have an ideal vision of society, one could have one's work to do.”

— Kaneko Fumiko, The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman (1991), p. 237

About Kaneko Fumiko

1903 – 1926

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

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