To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
AGNES SMEDLEY
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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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 have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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