The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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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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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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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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