No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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But 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.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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