I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYI would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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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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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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Friendship is far more human.
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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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