Aysu

“We, the older generation, did not yet understand, as most men do and as young women are learning today, that work and the longing for love can be harmoniously combined so that work remains as the main goal of existence. Our mistake was that each time we succumbed to the belief that we had finally found the one and only in the man we loved, the person with whom we believed we could blend our soul, one who was ready fully to recognize us as a spiritual-physical force.

But over and over again things turned out differently, since the man always tried to impose his ego upon us and adapt us fully to his purposes.”
― Alexandra Kollontai, The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman

“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Vi däremot vet, att det inte är kulturen och kunskapen som befriar och frigör kvinnan, utan det ekonomiska systemet, i vilket kvinnan får ägna sig åt nyttigt och produktivt arbete för hela samhället. Kommunismen är just ett sådant ekonomiskt system.”
― aleksandra kollontai, Kvinnans ställning i den ekonomiska samhällsutvecklingen

“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo