Friendship is far more human.
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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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 have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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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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