I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
AGNES SMEDLEYMuch that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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