New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
AGNES SMEDLEYMy mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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Friendship is far more human.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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