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 SMEDLEYI have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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 no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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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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