More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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 no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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