When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
AGNES SMEDLEYEverybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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 have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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 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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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