Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.