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.
AGNES SMEDLEYAnd 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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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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 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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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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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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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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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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