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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI 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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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More 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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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.
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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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