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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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