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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Friendship is far more human.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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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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