"There are individuals – a mere handful in the history of mankind – who, while themselves being the product of an immi…"

"Nothing is more difficult than writing an autobiography. What should be emphasized? Just what is of general interest?…"

"By looking back while prying, simultaneously, into the future, I will also be presenting to myself the most crucial t…"

"I have succeeded in structuring my intimate life according to my own standards and I make no secret of my love experi…"

"I managed to become a member of a government cabinet, of the first Bolshevik cabinet in the years 1917/18. I am also …"

"When I was appointed as Russian envoy to , I realized that I had thereby achieved a victory not only for myself, but …"

"I am still far from being the type of the positively new women who take their experience as with a relative lightness…"

"I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life."

"Already as a small child I criticized the injustice of adults and I experienced as a blatant contradiction the fact t…"

"'Women's Day' is a link in the long, solid chain of the women's proletarian movement. The organised army of working w…"