There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

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

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

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.

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 questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

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

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 decent environment.