I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYMore 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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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