I became increasingly anarchistic. I began to find people of my own class vicious, people in clean collars uninteresting. I even accepted smells, personal as well as official. Everyone who came to the studio smelled either of machine oil or herring.
ATTRIBUTION:
Margaret Anderson (1886–1973), U.S. literary editor and autobiographer. My Thirty Years’ War, ch. 2 (1930).
Of her (passing) infatuation, in her early twenties, with Emma Goldman (1869-1940) and anarchism. Anderson had met Goldman after writing and publishing an article which was sympathetic to anarchism.
