Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
AGNES SMEDLEYEverybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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 shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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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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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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