I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
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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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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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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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