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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

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Amber Hurdle

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

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Amber Hurdle

"An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

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Amber Hurdle

"My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled."

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Amber Hurdle

"Heaven set couples for babies' birth."

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Amber Hurdle

"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

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

Imagination

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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
"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."

Conflict

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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
"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
"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
"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."

Family

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

Fire

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