Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
AGNES SMEDLEYNew York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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 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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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