Quote by Agnes Smedley
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness t

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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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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My mother, at least twice, cancelled our familys subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father. – Charles Kuralt

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