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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. 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.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Ashes
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Attributed
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- Nov 07, 2020