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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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