When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
AGNES SMEDLEYI 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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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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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 have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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 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 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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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