I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYLike 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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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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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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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 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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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