So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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 have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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