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 SMEDLEYEverybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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 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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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