Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
AGNES SMEDLEYI feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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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 loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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