American - Journalist | February 23, 1892 - May 6, 1950
I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
Agnes Smedley
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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I hate female men.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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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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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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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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