I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
AGNES SMEDLEYIt was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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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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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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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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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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