I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
AGNES SMEDLEYI 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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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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