Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books. . . . I was learning that … - Agnes Smedley

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Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

Agnes Smedley

Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books. . . . I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

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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.

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