I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
AGNES SMEDLEYI believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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 no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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 loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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