JAPANESE WOMEN REBELS

" Since I was at girls school, all our teachers taught us that to achieve our happiness we must learn to be satisfied with our lot. They taught us to close our eyes and eliminate all the impulses that well up in our hearts (...) What is this happiness that we are taught by our teachers to seek? How agonizing and painful it must be to suppress, one's natural inner desires . I feel pity rather than anger at the shallow-so-called educators who teach us that this must be endured for the meager, temporary peace and happiness of the moment. I feel deep sorrow for the women who have been crippled by the ignorant- I do not hesitate to use this term- educators."

_Noe Ito, 伊藤 野枝 1895-1923.
Anarchist, social critic, author and feminist. Beaten to death_

From:
PEASANTS, REBELS, WOMEN AND OUTCASTS.
The Underside of modern Japan.
(Mikiso Hane)

see also:
_Kanno Suga, 1881-1911.
Japanese Political activist. Sentenced to death by hanging_

_Fumiko Kaneko, 金子 文子1903 - 1926.
Japanese anarchist and nihilist. After having been arrested, she died in prison_