When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
AGNES SMEDLEY
AGNES SMEDLEY
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley 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.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley Friendship is far more human.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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