I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYIt is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Friendship is far more human.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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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 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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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