Friendship is far more human.
AGNES SMEDLEYBut 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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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