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 SMEDLEYI believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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