Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
AGNES SMEDLEYNow, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
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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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