I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
AGNES SMEDLEY
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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