Yet 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!
AGNES SMEDLEYIt is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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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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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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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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.
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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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