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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. – Novalis

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The greenest home is the one you dont build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house thats already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels dont want. – Scott Adams

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A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability. – Tom DeLay

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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human beings functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. – Havelock Ellis

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