My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.


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No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a ...
EMMA GOLDMAN
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
EMMA GOLDMAN
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vit...
EMMA GOLDMAN
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
EMMA GOLDMAN
Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King...
EMMA GOLDMAN
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
EMMA GOLDMAN
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elo...
EMMA GOLDMAN
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the ...
EMMA GOLDMAN
The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And y...
EMMA CARLETON
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possib...
EMMA GOLDMAN
Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
EMMA GOLDMAN
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods a...
EMMA GOLDMAN
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and wi...
EMMA GOLDMAN
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains t...
EMMA GOLDMAN
Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the lib...
EMMA GOLDMAN
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu...
EMMA GOLDMAN
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a mora...
EMMA GOLDMAN
We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people ...
EMMA BUNTON
Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched t...
EMMA GOLDMAN
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of ...
EMMA GOLDMAN
Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We t...
EMMA THOMPSON
I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House...
EMMA STONE
We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums, so priorities have changed. But...
EMMA BUNTON
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear t...
EMMA ORCZY
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marri...
EMMA GOLDMAN
I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.
EMMA STONE
I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.
EMMA STONE
Spare me the carefully thought out accessorising that is supposed to look casually thrown on, while ...
EMMA ISHTA
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
EMMA GOLDMAN
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world...
EMMA GOLDMAN
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terribl...
EMMA GOLDMAN
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu...
EMMA GOLDMAN
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
EMMA GOLDMAN
When we can't dream any longer we die.
EMMA GOLDMAN
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
EMMA GOLDMAN
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing...
EMMA GOLDMAN
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction t...
EMMA GOLDMAN
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
EMMA GOLDMAN
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
EMMA GOLDMAN
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the ...
EMMA GOLDMAN
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
EMMA GOLDMAN
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought ...
EMMA GOLDMAN
If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not t...
EMMA THOMPSON
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong a...
EMMA GOLDMAN
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the w...
EMMA GOLDMAN
Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!
EMMA STONE
You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry,...
EMMA ROBERTS
I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been ...
EMMA TENNANT
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enri...
EMMA GOLDMAN
We all have to get our hope from somewhere, and if getting lost between the pages of a deep book giv...
EMMA HART