It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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Friendship is far more human.
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She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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