In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
AGNES SMEDLEYAnd 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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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