It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe 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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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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 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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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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 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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