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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.

— Alexandra Kollontai The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

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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)

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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.

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