So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. - Agnes Smedley
I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
- Agnes Smedley
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 su… - Agnes Smedley
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 su…
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty. - Agnes Smedley
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading. - Agnes Smedley
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mol… - Agnes Smedley
New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mol…
I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human. - Agnes Smedley
I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.
But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called. - Agnes Smedley
But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter. - Agnes Smedley
I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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 l… - Agnes Smedley
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 l…
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