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.
AGNES SMEDLEYNo one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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