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….

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,….

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be..

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 ….

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 abo….

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

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

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant..

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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….

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading..

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….

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

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….

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a dec….

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