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!
AGNES SMEDLEYThe subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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 have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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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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