It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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 have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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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 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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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