Voltairine de Cleyre on Mother's Day
1866–1912 United States
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The love of material ease has been, in the mass of men and permanently speaking, always greater than the love of liberty.
Anarchism & American Traditions (1908)
Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own!
For that I love
Thy heart of stone!
And sometimes when I am weary,
When the path is thorny and Wild,
I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight,
Back to the eyes that smiled.
And Thou Too (1888)
Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their love natures — restrained at every turn!
Sex Slavery (1890)
And pray that a wreath like a rainbow
May slip from the beautiful past,
And Crown me again with the sweet, strong love
And keep me, and hold me fast.
And Thou Too (1888)