I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYI forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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But 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.
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