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 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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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 subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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Friendship is far more human.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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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 here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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