No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
AGNES SMEDLEYAnd 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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