Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
AGNES SMEDLEYNow, 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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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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 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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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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