I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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