I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
AGNES SMEDLEYSo I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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