I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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