There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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