“It is a conceded fact that woman is being reared as a sex commodity, and yet she is kept in absolute ignorance of the meaning and importance of sex.”

— Emma Goldman, book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Traffic in Women

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