I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
AGNES SMEDLEYI feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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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 subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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 here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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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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