I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
AGNES SMEDLEY
AGNES SMEDLEY
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Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley 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 SmedleyAgnes Smedley But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley Friendship is far more human.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley 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.
Agnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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