The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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