“Make children take responsibility only for what they have actually done!”

— Kaneko Fumiko, The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman (1991), p. 72

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.”

“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”

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

“A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all—that is myself.”

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

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, but your government only when it deserves it.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”