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25 quotes by Agnes Smedley

A young Agnes Smedley, 1914. Agnes Smedley (February 23, 1892 – May 6, 1950) was an American journalist and writer. Well known for her semi-autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth as well as for her sympathetic chronicling of the Communist forces in the Chinese Civil War. During World War I, she worked in the United States for the independence of India from the United Kingdom, receiving financial support from the government of Germany, and for...
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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... →

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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

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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... →

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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... →

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I hate female men.

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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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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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