Agnes Smedley Quotes

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• There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
• 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…
• Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
• In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on…
• 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 forty…
• 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…
• For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
• 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…
• Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
• 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…
• I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
• I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come…
• I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
• No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
• When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
• More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not…
• Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode,…
• There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed…
• 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…
• 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…

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