I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
AGNES SMEDLEYThere were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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