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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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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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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 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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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