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.
AGNES SMEDLEYBut I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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