She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
AGNES SMEDLEYI 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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 no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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 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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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