Voltairine De Cleyre (November 17, 1866 - June 20, 1912) on Economics and Conformity(published by RevoltSource) |
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American Anarchist Feminist, Writer, Anti-Capitalist Speaker, Anti-Marriage Advocate, Free Lover, Freethinker, Revolutionary
: An American anarchist known for being a prolific writer and speaker who opposed capitalism, marriage and the state as well as the domination of religion over sexuality and women's lives which she saw as all interconnected. She is often characterized as a major early feminist because of her views. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #4 on Economic Struggle Quotes >> Economics and Conformity
“...certainly the presence of things in abundance, things empty and things vulgar and things absurd, as well as things convenient and useful, has produced the desire for the possession of things, the exaltation of the possession of things. Go through the business street of any city, where the tilted edges of the strata of things are exposed to gaze, and look at the faces of the people as they pass, --- not at the hungry and smitten ones who fringe the sidewalks and plain dolefully for alms, but at the crowd, --- and see what idea is written on their faces. On those of the women, from the ladies of the horse-shows to the shop girls out of the factory, there is a sickening vanity, a consciousness of their clothes, as of some jackdaw in borrowed feathers. Look for the pride and glory of the free, strong, beautiful body, lithe-moving and powerful. You will not see it. You will see mincing steps, bodies tilted to show the cut of a skirt, simpering, smirking faces, with eyes cast about seeking admiration for the gigantic bow of ribbon in the overdressed hair. In the caustic words of an acquaintance, to whom I once said, as we walked, "Look at the amount of vanity on all these women's faces," "No: look at the little bit of womanhood showing out of all that vanity!"”
Source: "The Dominant Idea," by Voltairne de Cleyre, Mother Earth Publishing Association, 210 East 18th Street. New York. 1910.
"The Dominant Idea," by Voltairne de Cleyre, Mother Earth Publishing Association, 210 East 18th Street. New York. 1910.
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