Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
AGNES SMEDLEYAlways 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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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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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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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