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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

~Agnes Smedley

Topics: Calls Everybody Feel Never Russia Safe Secretly Spy Surveillance You

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

~Agnes Smedley

Topics: Brink Feel Like Living Person Volcano I Feel I Feel Like

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

~Agnes Smedley

Topics: Being Being A Man However Man Masculine May Objection

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

~Agnes Smedley

Topics: Aid Events First Streets Week Worker

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I hate female men.

~Agnes Smedley

Topics: Female Hate 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.

~Agnes Smedley

Topics: Artificial Conceived Far How How Far Knows Man Province Today

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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.

~Agnes Smedley

Topics: Again Always Ashes Consumed Couple Fire He Setting Them Up

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

~Agnes Smedley

Topics: Dominant Force Girl Law Physical Still West Young

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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.

~Agnes Smedley

Topics: Bare Could Down Fists He Help Her Him Knock Man Often Respect Sit Until Who Win Woman Yelled

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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.

~Agnes Smedley

Topics: Certainly Come Did Fault Had He How Just Know Like Make Money Most Mother Rich Seemed Those Who Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 23rd, 1892

Died: May 6th, 1950

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