Conditions Quote by Rachel Holmes

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're…

— Rachel Holmes

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a…

— Rachel Holmes

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that…

— Rachel Holmes

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

— Rachel Holmes

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

— Rachel Holmes

My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa.…

— Rachel Holmes

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 affected by…

— Rachel Holmes

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

— Rachel Holmes

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…

— Rachel Holmes

Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary…

— Rachel Holmes

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

— Rachel Holmes

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

— Rachel Holmes