Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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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 was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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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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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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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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