I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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 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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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