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.
AGNES SMEDLEYLike all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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 shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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