Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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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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 have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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