I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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