Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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She 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.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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 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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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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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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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