I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
AGNES SMEDLEYThere’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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