There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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 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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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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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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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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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.
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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 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 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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