37 Quotes by Clara Zetkin

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women’s movement.

Fascism is the punishment inflicted on the proletariat for not having continued the revolution begun in Russia.

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life. When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices on behalf of our ideals.

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

It is out of the question that the task of socialist women's activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat.

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

The guardianship of the weaker sex has survived in the family law which still states, 'And he shall be your master.'

The bourgeois woman not only demands her own bread, but she also requests spiritual nourishment and wants to develop her individuality.

When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to the possession of a certain amount of property, but that it should be inherent in the woman herself.