Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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 shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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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.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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