So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
AGNES SMEDLEYYet 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!
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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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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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Friendship is far more human.
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