No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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 have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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