I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
AGNES SMEDLEYI was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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.
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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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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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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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Friendship is far more human.
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