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.
AGNES SMEDLEY
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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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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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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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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