I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYShe 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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 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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