But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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