Alexandra Kollontai Quotes

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

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• 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.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Society
  • Woman
  • Liberation

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

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Life
  • Free
  • Desires

• 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.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Woman
  • Recognition
  • Achievements

• 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.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Struggle
  • Workers
  • Bourgeoisie

• I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Energy
  • Novels
  • Fall In Love

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

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • History
  • Conception
  • Materialist

• Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Fate
  • Bureaucracy
  • Decides

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

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Population
  • Peaceful
  • Enslaved

• Not a single one of the men who were close to me has ever had a direction-giving influence on my inclinations, strivings, or my world-view. On the contrary, most of the time I was the guiding spirit. I acquired my view of life, my political line from life itself, and in uninterrupted study from books.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Life
  • Books
  • View

• I stand on the threshold of new missions and life is making new demands upon me. No matter what further tasks I shall be carrying out, it is perfectly clear to me that the complete liberation of the working woman and the creation of the foundation of a new sexual morality will always remain the highest aim of my activity, and of my life.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Life
  • Activity
  • Demands

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

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Character
  • Danger
  • Matters

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

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Marriage

• Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Instinct
  • Hunger
  • Sexuality

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

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Life
  • Work
  • Experiences