Frederica Montseny

“Abortion is a tragic right, but a right nonetheless.”

“Freedom cannot be given. It must be taken.”

“The war... what a horrible thing! It destroys everything, men, morals, feelings.”

“Our struggle is a struggle for life, for the beauty of life, for the plenitude of life.”

“The emancipation of women will be the work of women themselves, or it will not be.”

“Anarchism, to me, is the expression of the eternal human aspiration for freedom and justice.”

“We do not want to substitute a feminist tyranny for a masculine one.”

“We must create a new world from the ruins of the old.”

“Conscious motherhood is a social function, one of the greatest, the most sacred of all.”

“I believe that the role of women in the struggle is fundamental, decisive, and that without women, revolution is impossible.”

“To live without ideals is to live without a reason for living.”

“We were human beings fighting for a human cause.”

“I am an anarchist because I believe that human beings can be better than they are.”

“Education is the key to liberation.”

“We are not fighting for a particular party, but for the triumph of our ideas.”