There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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 shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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