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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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"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."

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"You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events."
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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."

"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!"

"In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents."

"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. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories."

"But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know."

"Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys."

"So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also."

"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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