Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
AGNES SMEDLEYMy mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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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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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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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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