Like 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.
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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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 settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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