The Sex Question
Voltairine de Cleyre, “C. L. James” (1911)
It is nearly eighteen years ago, back in the fall of 1893, that for the brief space of a half an hour I sat in the company of C. L. James. It happened so: it […]
Reflections and Appreciations
The Sex Question
Voltairine de Cleyre, “Hugh O. Pentecost” (1907)
EIGHTEEN or nineteen years ago, away out in a sleepy little Michigan town, there fell into my hands a tiny bit of a paper “no bigger than a man’s hand”; there were only four sheets […]
The Sex Question
Voltairine de Cleyre, “Kristofer Hansteen” (1906)
“OF the earth, unearthly—” The sentence remained unfinished as I had written it two years and a half ago when Disease laid its hand on me, and all my MSS. ended in a dash. It […]
The Sex Question
Emma Goldman, “Simion Koldofsky, the Friend” (1936)
I first met Simion Koldofsky in Moscow in 1920, during the so-called military communism. Life was cruelly hard and the struggle bitter… Russia, surrounded by four fronts,–blockaded by all the European powers–was not in the […]
The Sex Question
Emma Goldman, “Has My Life Been Worth While?” (1933)
HAS MY LIFE BEEN WORTH WHILE? Have I wasted my life? Measured by the ordinary standards of value, my life may be considered wasted. I have nothing in social prestige, wealth and power—that holy alliance […]