I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that 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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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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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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She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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