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Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (1869–1940), U.S. anarchist, labor organizer, and author. Feminism, ch. 5 (1910).

Referring to Americans' common belief that most United States prostitutes were immigrants and had in many cases been prostitutes earlier, in their native lands.

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