Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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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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