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.
AGNES SMEDLEYFriendship 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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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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