“I do not believe that woman will make politics worse; nor can I believe that she could make it better. If, then, she cannot improve on man’s mistakes, why perpetrate the latter?”

—  Emma Goldman , book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Woman Suffrage

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