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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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 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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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