No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
AGNES SMEDLEYBut 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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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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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