My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
AGNES SMEDLEYI believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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