Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
AGNES SMEDLEYNo one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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 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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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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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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