For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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 always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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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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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 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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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