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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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