There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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 no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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 have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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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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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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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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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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