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Quotes from The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman — Alexandra Kollontai

1872–1952 Russia

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The time has come when all human beings will be equally appraised according to their activity and their general human dignity.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

Nothing is more difficult than writing an autobiography.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

I revolted against this marriage of convenience, this marriage for money and wanted to marry only for love, out of a great passion.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

I never gave a thought to any kind of danger, being all too engrossed in matters of an utterly different character.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

Only the fresh revolutionary storms were strong enough to sweep away hoary prejudices against woman and only the productive-working people is able to effect the complete equalization and liberation of woman by building a new society.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

I could not lead a happy, peaceful life when the working population was so terribly enslaved.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

My life was as crammed with strenuous work and highly interesting experiences alike.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

The issue was to wage a struggle against the war, against coalescence with the liberal bourgeoisie, and for the power of the workers' councils, the Soviets.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

To me the war was an abomination, a madness, a crime, and from the first moment onwards–more out of impulse than reflection–I inwardly rejected it and could never reconcile myself with it up to this very moment.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

I stood close to the materialist conception of history, since in early womanhood I had inclined towards the realistic school.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

My Marxist outlook pointed out to me with an illuminating clarity that women's liberation could take place only as the result of the victory of a new social order and a different economic system.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

I always believed that the time inevitably must come when woman will be judged by the same moral standards applied to man. For it is not her specific feminine virtue that gives her a place of honor in human society, but the worth of the useful mission accomplished by her, the worth of her personality as human being, as citizen, as thinker, as fighter.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

If I have attained something in this world, it was not my personal qualities that originally brought this about. Rather my achievements are only a symbol of the fact that woman, after all, is already on the march to general recognition.

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexandra Kollontai (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.