So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
AGNES SMEDLEYAlways 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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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 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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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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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.
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