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Author : Voltairine De Cleyre

 : The Dominant Idea

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...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!"


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