New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
AGNES SMEDLEYI would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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