Quote by Agnes Smedley
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strengt

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. – Agnes Smedley

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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. – Agnes Smedley

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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

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respect
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. – Brian Tracy

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Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, were going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it. – Cheryl Tiegs

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I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didnt get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them. – Michel Gondry

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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. – Anna Freud

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