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.
AGNES SMEDLEYMore and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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 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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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