For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian..

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 ….

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty..

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only..

New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mol….

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 l….

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called..

I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human..

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading..

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter..

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they su….

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater..

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….

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 quest….

I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ru….

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of thei….

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….

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deade….

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe..

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask que….

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 he….