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> [“...we live this one brief and precious hour called Life; ...it is not in keeping with the nobility of existence to keep other human being in subjection..." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/we-live-this-one-brief-and-precious-hour-called-life-it-is-not-in/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

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## More by Agnes Smedley

> [So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/so-i-had-to-be-the-doctor-to-these-wounded-men-until-we-could-remove/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/yet-it-is-awful-to-love-a-person-who-is-a-torture-to-you-and-a/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/now-being-a-girl-i-was-ashamed-of-my-body-and-my-lack-of-strength-so/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/but-he-like-my-mother-had-certainly-come-to-know-that-those-who-work/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/to-die-would-have-been-beautiful-but-i-belong-to-those-who-do-not-die/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [“...we live this one brief and precious hour called Life; ...it is not in keeping with the nobility of existence to keep other human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/we-live-this-one-brief-and-precious-hour-called-life-it-is-not-in/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/thousands-of-women-are-crushed-and-made-inarticulate-by-that-system/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/what-a-couple-i-m-consumed-into-ashes-and-he-s-always-raking-up-the/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless… Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/new-york-was-a-new-and-strange-world-vast-impersonal-merciless-always/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/no-one-yet-knows-what-a-man-s-province-is-and-how-far-that-province/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/i-have-loved-and-bitterness-left-me-for-that-hour-but-there-are-times/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/subjection-of-any-kind-and-in-any-place-is-beneath-the-dignity-of-man/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/my-mother-listened-to-all-the-news-from-the-camp-during-the-strike/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/but-settled-things-were-enemies-to-me-and-soon-lost-their-newness-and/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

> [For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-smedley/for-months-it-seemed-that-a-revolution-was-certain-but-instead/)

[Agnes Smedley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-smedley/)

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