I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
AGNES SMEDLEYNew York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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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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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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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