When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.