I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
AGNES SMEDLEYNew York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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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 shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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