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 SMEDLEYThe 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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