I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
AGNES SMEDLEYI believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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