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!
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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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 have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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