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Agnes Smedley Quotes: "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."

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.



Agnes Smedley Quotes: "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 Quotes: "To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty."

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.



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

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




Agnes Smedley Quotes: "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."

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.



Agnes Smedley Quotes: "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."

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.



Agnes Smedley Quotes: "I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be."

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




Agnes Smedley Quotes: "Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only."

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.



Agnes Smedley Quotes: "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!"

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!



Agnes Smedley Quotes: "There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading."

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.



Agnes Smedley Quotes: "But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called."

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



Agnes Smedley Quotes: "When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant."

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.




Agnes Smedley Quotes: "No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial."

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.



Agnes Smedley Quotes: "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."

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.



Agnes Smedley Quotes: "For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian."

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.



Agnes Smedley Quotes: "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."

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.