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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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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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Bad Holding Leading Little Newspaper Pamphlet Paper Radical Socialist Tract
Friendship is far more human.
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Far Friendship Human More
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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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Subject Technical Theories Treated
New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Country Destiny Hopeful Impersonal New Strange Vast World
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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Fight Highest Human Making Reason Side Stature Unable
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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Found Indian Man Often Qualities Refined Sex Strong Until
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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Beautiful Beauty Belong Die Sake
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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Back Break Country Forever Free India Itself More Revolution Succesful Successful
I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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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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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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Army Boy Care Daily Fifty Four Little Prisoner Red Women
It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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Ask Nor Question Subject Technical Understand
I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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Hard Let Money Other Ruin Ruined Speak
But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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 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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Boy Fight Jumped Part Rode Shot Took
I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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