It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
AGNES SMEDLEYFor the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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 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 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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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Friendship is far more human.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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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 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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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