Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
AGNES SMEDLEYProfessors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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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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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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