So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of 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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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