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.
AGNES SMEDLEYIt is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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