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Agnes Smedley

"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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"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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"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done-peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."

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"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

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"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."

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"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."

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"In the summer heat the reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."

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"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."

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"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."
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"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."
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"I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."
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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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"Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only."
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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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"Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster."
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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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