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.
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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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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