New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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