Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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 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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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