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    Agnes Smedley

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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

    #conceived #far #how #how far #knows

    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

    #be a man #being #being a girl #body #fights

    There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones. ↗


    — Agnes Smedley

    #attributed #female #found #indians #many

    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

    #decent #develop #environment #force #inarticulate

    What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. ↗


    — Agnes Smedley

    #always #ashes #consumed #couple #fire

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


    — Agnes Smedley

    #force #girl #i #law #physical

    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

    #awful #eternity #fascinating #hear #him






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    She travelled with first the 8th Route Army and then the New Fourth Army as well as visiting some of the non-Communist Chinese army. Smedley left the field in 1937; Agnes Smedley organized medical supplies and continued writing. She was at this time close to M.

    She worked on behalf of various causes including women's rights birth control and children's welfare. She was also known for her sympathetic chronicling of the Chinese revolution. During World War I Agnes Smedley worked in the United States for the independence of India from Great Britain receiving financial support from the government of Germany and for many years worked for or with the Comintern promoting world revolution.

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