Logo
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

Other 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

Category:
respect
Author
Agnes Smedley
Read Quote

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

Category:
Family
Author
Agnes Smedley
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
strength
category

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction. – Michael McCaul

Category:
strength

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
strength

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice. – Kurt Huber

Category:
strength

A threefold cord is not quickly broken. – Bible

Category:
strength

Random Quotes

He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters. – JamesI

Category:
Food

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Love

Once boys and mens challenges are clear, the question why now quickly becomes why didnt we see this sooner? The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. – Warren Farrell

Category:
Society

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. – Noam Chomsky

Category:
Public