"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women."
-Clara Zetkin
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"The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.“
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"In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized."
-Clara Zetkin
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"The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation."
-Clara Zetkin
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"In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
-Sebastian Junger
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