Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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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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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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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
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Friendship is far more human.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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