
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 11 - Marriage and Love
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Love Is the Most Powerful Elements in All Life
Marriage only sanction motherhood, even though conceived in hatred and compulsion. How can such an all compelling force be synonymous with that poor little state and church begotten weed, marriage? As if love is anything but free. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. I know women who became mothers in freedom by the men they loved. Few children in wedlock enjoy the care, the protection, the devotion free motherhood is capable of bestowing. It is like the last desperate struggle of fleeting life against death.
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