I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
AGNES SMEDLEY
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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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.
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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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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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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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