It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
AGNES SMEDLEYFor the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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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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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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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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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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.
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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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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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