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Title: Marriage and Love

Author: Emma Goldman

Release Date: March 1, 2007 [EBook #20715]

Language: English

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Marriage and Love

BY

EMMA GOLDMAN

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_A Unique Contribution to Socio-Psychological Literature_

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Marriage and Love

BY

EMMA GOLDMAN

Price Ten Cents

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210 EAST 13th STREET, NEW YORK

1911

MARRIAGE AND LOVE

The popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous,
that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs.
Like most popular notions this also rests not on actual facts, but on
superstition.

Marriage and love have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the
poles; are, in fact, antagonistic to each other. No doubt some marriages
have been the result of love. Not, however, because love could assert
itself only in marriage; much rather is it because few people can
completely outgrow a convention. There are today large numbers of men
and women to whom marriage is naught but a farce, but who submit to it
for the sake of public opinion. At any rate, while it is true that some
marriages are based on love, and while it is equally tr