Dear Friends and readers, The New Freewoman has no cause. The nearest approach to a cause it desires to attain is to destroy causes, and for the doing of this it finds its reward and incentive in its own satisfaction. The New Freewoman is not for the advancement of Woman, but for the empowerment of individuals—men and women…something like the foregoing is what the editorials will have to say, but for the rest of the paper, only a general sympathy with our “attitude” will be sought. Having no cause we have no sacred ground, and no individual interpretations of life will be debarred beforehand. In the clash of opinion we shall expect to find our values.
— Dora Marsden, 1913 in The New Freewoman magazine (1.2:25)
