I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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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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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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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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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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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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