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

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

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 sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

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

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

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.

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.