Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to s… — Agnes Smedley

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 SmedleyJournalist · American · 1892 – 1950

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My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father. — Hugh Leonard
My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. — James Cronin
I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father. — Theodore C. Sorensen
When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant. — Agnes Smedley
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What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. — Agnes Smedley