Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
AGNES SMEDLEYYet 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!
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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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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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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