I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.
I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.
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I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.
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