For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
AGNES SMEDLEYThere 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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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