For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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 no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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