I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
AGNES SMEDLEYNow, 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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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