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Agnes Smedley quotes

American Journalist February 23, 1892 – May 6, 1950

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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. Agnes Smedley
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. Agnes Smedley
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. Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley quote: "What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking..."
What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley quote: "I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."
I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley quote: "Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only."
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only. Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley quote: "Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and..."
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. Agnes Smedley
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. Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley quote: "I hate female men."
I hate female men. Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley quote: "No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that..."
No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial. Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley quote: "For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker..."
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley quote: "I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine..."
I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be. Agnes Smedley

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