It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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 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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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