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

— Emma Goldman, "Has My Life Been Worth While?" (1933)

About Emma Goldman

1869 – 1940

Lithuanian-born American anarchist and writer.

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

“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.”

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

“Cherish the children your love gave life.”

“A loving heart maintains a family; a hateful heart destroys a family.”

“So for the mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.”

“Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

“Marriage is the fullness of time.”