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In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
— Agnes Smedley
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Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.
— Agnes Smedley
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No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
— Agnes Smedley
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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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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
— Agnes Smedley
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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
— Agnes Smedley
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