New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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