Kathleen’s Reviews > Living My Life, Vol. 2 > Status Update

1917. Met Helen Keller at demonstration for indicted journalists writing for The Masses (including Max Eastman and John Reed). “The marvelous woman, bereft of the most vital human senses, could nevertheless, by her psychic strength, see and hear and articulate."

Left this for WAY too long--years! Will start over again in 2021!

Now deported to Russia, Emma hits roadblocks at every turn when trying to improve conditions for people there: "For hours he kept me in his office arguing the infallibility of the Communist State and the immaculate conception of the Bolshevik dictatorship. One must either accept them without question or be shut out of the fold."

“McCarthy declared that no warrant was necessary for us; Mother Earth contained enough treasonable matter to land us in jail for years. He had come to get us and we had better hurry up. Leisurely, I walked towards the stairs and called: ‘Sasha, Fitzi—some visitors are here to arrest us.’”