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.
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.
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.
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.
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading. - Agnes Smedley
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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…
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.
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