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!
AGNES SMEDLEYProfessors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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 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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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