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.
AGNES SMEDLEYMy mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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