Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
Agnes SmedleyBut there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
Agnes SmedleyBut settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
Agnes SmedleyWhen I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
Agnes Smedley