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.
AGNES SMEDLEYShe 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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