Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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