Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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 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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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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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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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