I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
AGNES SMEDLEYMuch that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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 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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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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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 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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