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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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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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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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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 have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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