Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
AGNES SMEDLEYProfessors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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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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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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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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