I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
AGNES SMEDLEYIn 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 subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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 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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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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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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