Quote by Clara Zetkin
What made womens labour particularly attractive to the capitalists

What made womens labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. – Clara Zetkin

Other quotes by Clara Zetkin

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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War
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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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Attitude
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The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. – Clara Zetkin

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Society
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Women
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Theres something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like womens backs. – Kristin Scott Thomas

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Women

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! – Billy Sunday

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Women

Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones. – Camille Paglia

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Women

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. – Samuel Richardson

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Women

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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. – Carl Sandburg

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About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so Im no longer somebodys daughter. – Jane Pauley

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