Aleksandra Kollontaĭ

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman

Jameila

“For it is not her specific feminine virtue that gives her a place of honour in human society, but the worth of the useful mission accomplished by her, the worth of personality as human being, as citizen, as thinker, as fighter.”

“Yet the longing to be understood by a man down to the deepest, most secret recesses of one’s soul, to be recognised by him as a striving human being, repeatedly decided matters. And repeatedly disappointment ensued all too swiftly, since the friend saw in me only the feminine element which he tried to mould into a willing sounding board to his own ego.”

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman

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