"At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. [...] he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. [...] My frivolity would only hurt the Cause.

[...] I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. [...] I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it." -- Emma Goldman