For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer. — Rachel Holmes Action Copy Share Image
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day. — Rachel Holmes Celebration Copy Share Image
People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to… — Rachel Holmes Apartheid Copy Share Image
Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness.… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different… — Rachel Holmes Adults Copy Share Image
The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her… — Rachel Holmes Absolutes Copy Share Image
The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in… — Rachel Holmes Adversity Copy Share Image
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