“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

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

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