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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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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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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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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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