I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
AGNES SMEDLEYMy mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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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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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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