Granted this is an old quote from an old book, and no doubt everyone except myself had already heard of it before today but I love this quote that I just read in Sheila Rowbotham's 'Daughter of the Dream', her essay on Emma Goldman that originally appeared as the introduction to Pluto Press's 1987 edition of Living My Life, and which was reprinted in her collection of selected writings 'Threads Through Time':
"A response to the claim of necessary suffering, with which Emma Goldman concurred, is summarized by Alix Kates Shulman in her introduction to Emma Goldman's writing on Russia: 'One can't make an omelette without breaking eggs,' people said in defence of the excesses of the Russian revolution. The poet Panait-Istrati is reported by Victor Serge to have replied: 'All right, I can see the broken eggs.Now, where's this omelette of yours?'
More quotes of the day involving dairy produce and revolution tomorrow. Probably
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