But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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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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