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Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

Book by Voltairine de Cleyre · 3 quotes · Liberty, Anarchism, Mean

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“If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow.”

“[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.”