May 2013
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Oh Freedom, subtle deceiver, what chains are forged and riveted in thy Name.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
So the patient advocates of “free states,” “free speech,” “free assemblage,” what are they but deluded children in the vicinity of forces they do not comprehend? If they want to assemble and speak without let or hindrance, let them increase their own power, their strength of arm until they can speak and meet as they will. But to ask for free speech and free...
“Freedom” presumes a state and there is no state of being free; there is an activity of free-ing but the activity is limited by time to the duration of the act itself; the act completed, the free-ing is ended. To advance the concept of freedom as a reality is to attempt to give to that which has no meaning apart from expansion of a force, the laid-out, static quality of the objective...
There is only one person concerned in the freeing of individuals: and that is the person who wears and feels and resents the shackles. Shackles must be burst off: if they are cut away from outside, they will immediately reform, as those whose cause is “our poor sisters” and “poor brothers” will find.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
April 2013
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There is only one thing the down-trodden with retained dignity can do, and that is to Get Up.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
March 2013
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The law is not for those who make it. It is for the dispossessed only.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
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The law of honesty is the first precept written out on the Iron Mask. Honesty is a rule of convenience whose purpose is to keep back the crowd from the excellent game of the select few.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
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High finance - a game of sport best played like cricket, with limited numbers.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
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The fat man is just as likely to endow the lean scolders as is the Almighty - none at all. He is satisfied in the knowledge that they can achieve their own endowment as he and his achieved theirs, by taking from yielding hands.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
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Hence, the popularity of the “Cause” which provides the Ideal to which the “desired self-sacrifice can be offered.” The greater the sacrifice the Idol can accept the greater is it as a “Cause,” whether it be liberty, equality, fraternity, honesty or what not. If ten thousand starving men, with their tens of thousands of dependents, starve in the Cause of...
February 2013
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This is the epoch of the gadding mind. The mind “not at home” but given to something else, occupied with alien “causes” is of the normal order, and as such must be held accountable for that condemning of the lonely occupant of the home - the Self - which is the characteristic of the common mind.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
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It is from a full recognition of the fact that feminist doctrine is a hard one for women, that the path of the Freewoman will be beset with difficulties, with temptations both from within and without, that we are led to the further recognition of the futility of preaching it to the women who are essentially ordinary women, who do not already bear in themselves the stamp of the individual.
The...
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Imagine the circumstances! The man would be compelled by law to pay a portion of his salary to a person whom he is prevented by law from dismissing, and who is prevented by law from securing release. The paid person may be satisfactory or not. If unsatisfactory, what redress is there for the employer? No redress! but a possible remedy in corporal punishment, such as is administered to soldiers in...
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What are the responsibilities of the father? Well, that is his business. Perhaps the State will have something to say to him, but the Freewoman’s concern is to see to it that she shall be in a position to bear children if she wants them without soliciting maintenance from any man, whoever he may be; and this she can only do if she is earning money for herself, or is provided for out of some...
January 2013
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The cult of the Suffragist takes its stand upon the weakness and dejectedness of the conditions of women. The cult of the Suffragist would say, “Are women not weak? Are women not crushed down? Are women not in need of protection? Therefore, give them the means wherewith they may be protected.” Those of the cult of the Freewoman, however, while granting this in part, would go on to say,...
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How women have fallen into this position is a moot point. It is yet to be decided whether they ever did fall - where man and women have not been, from their creation, master and servant. If otherwise, and if woman did “fall,” the reason why is yet to be assigned. It is quite beside the point to say women were “crushed” down. If they were not “down” in themselves...
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The opponents of the Freewomen are not actuated by spleen or stupidity, but by dread. This dread is well founded upon ages of experience with a being who, however well loved, has been known to be an inferior, and who has accepted all the conditions of inferiors. Women, women’s intelligence, and women’s judgments have always been regarded with more or less secret contempt.
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In the midst of all this there comes a cry that woman is an individual, and that because she is an individual she must be set free. It would be nearer the truth to say that if she is an individual, she is free, and will act like those who are free.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, November 23rd 1911
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The chief event of this week is our own first appearance.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, November 23rd 1911
The beginning of the New Year will serve as a sufficient apology for stating what one considers to be the unique and supremely important task: one for the execution of which we can see no evidence of minds other than our own being forthcoming.
The Egoist, Volume 2 Number 1, January...
October 2012
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EACH WEDNESDAY, BEGINNING JANUARY 2013.
