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

Category:
Society
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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

Category:
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

Category:
Attitude
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Other Quotes from
Women
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I dont really care what people tell children – when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib wont hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful. – Julie Burchill

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Women

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate. – Gina Barreca

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Women

Women priests. Great, great. Now theres priests of both sexes I dont listen to. – Bill Hicks

Category:
Women

John Currins exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Women

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I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people. – Robert Runcie

Category:
Travel

Rich, fatty foods are like destiny: they too, shape our ends. – Author unknown

Category:
Dieting

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. – Otto von Bismarck

Category:
Government

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. – Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

Category:
Honesty