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.
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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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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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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 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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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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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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 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 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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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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