I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
AGNES SMEDLEYThousands 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.
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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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I 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.
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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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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.
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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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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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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