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Agnes Smedley

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

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Asa Don Brown

"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."

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Asa Don Brown

"But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes."

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Asa Don Brown

"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."

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Asa Don Brown

"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."

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Asa Don Brown

"Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist."

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Asa Don Brown

"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."

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Asa Don Brown

"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."

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Asa Don Brown

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

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Asa Don Brown

"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."

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Asa Don Brown

"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."

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Agnes Smedley
"Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children."

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"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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Agnes Smedley
"No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial."

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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."

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Agnes Smedley
"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."

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

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"For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak."

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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."

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"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."

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Agnes Smedley
"I hate female men."

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