Agnes Smedley Men Quotations

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

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

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.

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.

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

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.

Now and then some Party member would announce a study circle, and I would join it, along with some ten or twelve working men and women.