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.
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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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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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 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 no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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Friendship is far more human.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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.
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