The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of idealogy [sic], that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art etc.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.