Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
AGNES SMEDLEYI forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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But 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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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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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