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.
AGNES SMEDLEYFor the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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