She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
AGNES SMEDLEYBut 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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And 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.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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