Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
AGNES SMEDLEYI shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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