So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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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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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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