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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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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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