New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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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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