Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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 settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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