Agnes Smedley

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. ”

I hate female men. ”

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

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

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international. ”

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. ”

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be. ”

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! ”

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. ”

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. ”