Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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 shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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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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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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