Quote by Agnes Smedley
And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman

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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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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strength
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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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Sympathy
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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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Family
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Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world. – Joanna Trollope

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If youre lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill. – Frank Langella

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I have as much input to the blues I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect. – Luther Allison

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respect

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own. – Kurt Masur

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. – Eugene Delacroix

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Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they cant get away from the gospel in shoe leather. – Donald Grey Barnhouse

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