Quotes by Agnes Smedley

Agnes Smedley

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.

Men

Respect

Winning

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

Adventure

Color

Enemy

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.

Family

Song

Years

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.

Believe

Money

Pain

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

Feels

Living On

Volcanoes

I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.

Belief

Men

Sex

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Bitter

Bitterness

Hours

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

Masculine

May

Men

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.

Holding On

Littles

Paper

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.

Family

Fathers Day

Mother

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Enemy

Europe

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Father

Fathers Day

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Fighting

Forever

Girl

Holding On

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Hours

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Quotes by Agnes Smedley

Agnes Smedley

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.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

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.

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

I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

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

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.

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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