I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
AGNES SMEDLEYProfessors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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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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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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