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.
AGNES SMEDLEYProfessors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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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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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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