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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners. – Agnes Smedley

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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. – Alfred Jarry

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. – Albert Schweitzer

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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. – Herman Melville

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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. – Leo Buscaglia

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