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.
AGNES SMEDLEYSo I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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