Reading "Marriage and Love" Emma Goldman
-In "Marriage and Love," Emma Goldman insists that the institution of marriage makes women

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In "Marriage and Love," Emma Goldman argues that marriage has historically made women into financial parasites, dependent on their husband's income and unable to support themselves. She writes, "Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement...It is the woman who is the underpaid wage earner, the exploited person, the sexual plaything, who is robbed of her dignity and self-respect. Marriage does not bring about what the State and church claim it does: namely, 'the sanctity of the institution and the highest form of human happiness.' On the contrary, it condemns women to a life of economic and emotional dependence, stifles their creativity and self-expression, and turns them into parasites on the labor of men."