Quotes by Agnes Smedley - Page 1

I hate female men.
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Female
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There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Death
Dying
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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Imagination
Desire
Russia
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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Feels
Living On
Volcanoes
Person
Feel
Living
Brink
Volcano
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Men
Masculine
May
Being A Man
However
Objection
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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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Events
Firsts
Streets
Week
Aid
Worker
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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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Beauty
Beautiful
Has Beens
Sake
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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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Adventure
Color
Enemy
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Bitter
Bitterness
Hours
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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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Girl
Dominant
Force
Law
Physical Force
West
Physical
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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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Men
Artificial
Today
Conceived
How Far
Province
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What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.
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Ashes
Consumed
Setting
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Russia
Safe
Spy
Surveillance
Calls
Secretly
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.
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Men
Belief
Sex
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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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Sports
Gambling
Squash
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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 on him until he yelled for help.
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Respect
Men
Fists
Hands
Winning
Bare
Yelled
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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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Matter
May
No Reason
Outlets
Reason Why
Develop
Matters
Suited
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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. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Girl
Ashamed
Be A Man
Being A Girl
Boys
Fighting
Fights
Shot
Rode
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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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Crushed
Decent
Environment
Force
Inarticulate
Made
Women Are
Develop
Natures
Thousands
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But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
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Seemed
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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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Men
Female
Refined
Sex
Strong
Attributed
Indians
Qualities
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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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Awful
Eternity
Fascinating
Living Right
Love You
Torture
Loves
To Love
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Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.
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Germany
Harvest
Rich
Terrible
Tuberculosis
Condition
Adolescent
Particularly
Masses
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In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
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Cents
Exhaustion
Hotel
Month
Maid
Marks
Talked
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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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Money
Believe
Pain
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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 a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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England
Europe
Forever
International
Revolution
Successful
Concerning
More And More
Purely
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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 very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Holding On
Littles
Newspapers
Paper
Print
Socialist
Subjects
Hall
Holding
Leading
Rack
Theories
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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 little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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Men
Army
Boys
Forty
Red
Remove
Take Care
Wounded
Doctor
Daily
Hospital
Prisoners
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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Men
Fighting
Joy
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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.
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Family
Affection
Caught
Class
Disaster
Fathers Day
Kissing
Mother
Weakness
Family Mother Father
Considered
Show
Sign
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. 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.
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Sympathy
Father
Miners
Mother
News
Remember
Said
Camp
Instinctive
Listened
Strike
Worked
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For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
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Resistance
Revolution
Russia
Weak
Likely
Seemed
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... 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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Education
Men
Book
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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 prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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Asking
Circles
Leader
Marxist
Prepared
Print
Questions
Carefully
Circle
Joined
Subject
Technical
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. 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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New York
Destiny
Hopeful
Ignorant
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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. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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Family
Blood
Song
Years
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