Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
AGNES SMEDLEYMy mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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