I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
AGNES SMEDLEYMy mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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