There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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There 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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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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.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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