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

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

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

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.

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.

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.