But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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 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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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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