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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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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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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Friendship is far more human.
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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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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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