[the Married Woman Is] Is A Bonded

What I Say Is, That The Real Non-resistants Can Believe In Direct Action Only, Never In Political Action. For The Basis Of All Political Action Is Coercion; Even When The State Does Good Things, It Finally Rests On A Club, A Gun, Or A Prison, For Its Power To Carry Them Through.

[the Married Woman Is] Is A Bonded Slave, Who Takes Her Master's Name, Her Master's Bread, And Serves Her Master's Passion; [and] Who Passes Through The Ordeal Of Pregnancy And The Throes Of Travail At His Dictation.

[the Catholic Convent] Had Been Like The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death, And There Are White Scars On My Soul, Where Ignorance And Superstition Burnt Me With Their Hell Fire In Those Stifling Days.

If The Believers In Liberty Wish The Principles Of Liberty Taught, Let Them Never Intrust That Instruction To Any Government; For The Nature Of Government Is To Become A Thing Apart, An Institution Existing For Its Own Sake, Preying Upon The People, And Teaching Whatever Will Tend To Keep It Secure In Its Seat.

... It Is Better To Study How To Live Rather Than How To Die; ... It Is Better To Have A Religion Of Deeds Rather Than A Religion Of Creeds; ... It Is Better To Work For Humanity Than For God.