I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
AGNES SMEDLEYI feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
AGNES SMEDLEYBut 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.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
AGNES SMEDLEYNew York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
AGNES SMEDLEYNo one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
AGNES SMEDLEYI 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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
AGNES SMEDLEYShe 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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI 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.
AGNES SMEDLEYIt is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
AGNES SMEDLEYBut here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
AGNES SMEDLEYBut settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
AGNES SMEDLEYProfessors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
AGNES SMEDLEYI forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
AGNES SMEDLEYEverybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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