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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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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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