Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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 shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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