Quotes by Agnes Smedley

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. (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. (Agnes Smedley)

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be. (Agnes Smedley)

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. (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. (Agnes Smedley)

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent. (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. (Agnes Smedley)

I hate female men. (Agnes Smedley)

I have lived in the homes of workers; they live on boiled potatoes, black bread with lard spread on it instead of butter, and rotten beer. (Agnes Smedley)

I have written for years of the Red Army, yet my first living contact with it was with these peasants. They did not understand me. (Agnes Smedley)