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.
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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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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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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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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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