When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
AGNES SMEDLEYThere 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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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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 subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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