Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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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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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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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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