I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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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 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 always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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