It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
AGNES SMEDLEYBut settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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But 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.
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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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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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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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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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 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.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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