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.
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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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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 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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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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