Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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.Agnes Smedley
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.
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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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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.
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No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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I have lived in the homes of workers they live on boiled potatoes, black bread with lard spread on it instead of butter, and rotten beer.
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