No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
AGNES SMEDLEY
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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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.
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There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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.
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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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