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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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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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