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Agnes Smedley

"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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"You can endure every hardship with hope."

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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."

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Donna Grant

"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."

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Donna Grant

"The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength."

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"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."

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"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."

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"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."

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Donna Grant

"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."

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Donna Grant

"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."

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Donna Grant

"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."

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Agnes Smedley
"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."

Strength

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Agnes Smedley
"My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners."

Man

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

Force

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

Being

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Agnes Smedley
"In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories."

Politics

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Agnes Smedley
"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."

Woman

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Agnes Smedley
"Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster."

Family

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Agnes Smedley
"Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only."

Imagination

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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 living right by his side through all eternity!"

Love

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

Politics

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