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If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

Emma Goldman
Love, Stress, Giving
Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.184, University of Illinois Press

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

Emma Goldman
Work, Giving, Bread

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

Emma Goldman
Giving, Heaven, Promise
Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.164, Cosimo, Inc.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Emma Goldman
Giving, Force, Ifs

The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.

Emma Goldman
Hysteria, Giving, Political
Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.102, PM Press

If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

Emma Goldman
Giving, Demand, Sacred
Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.

Emma Goldman
Giving, Demand, Path
Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.215, Cosimo, Inc.

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