New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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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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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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