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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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Amber Hurdle

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

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Amber Hurdle

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

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Amber Hurdle

"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

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Amber Hurdle

"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

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Amber Hurdle

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

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Amber Hurdle

"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

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Amber Hurdle

"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

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Agnes Smedley
"I hate female men."

Man

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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."

Man

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

Imagination

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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
"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
"But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know."

Work

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Agnes Smedley
"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
"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."

Man

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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
"In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents."

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