Rachel Holmes Quotes

• 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.

  Rachel Holmes

  Pensar, Ser, Personas

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• 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 stranger in your bed.

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  Being In Love, Enemy, Bed

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• Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.

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  Father, Book, Assessment

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• Eleanor Marx fue la primera biógrafa de su padre. Todas las biografías posteriores de Karl Marx, y la mayoría de Engels, se basan en su trabajo como fuentes primarias para la historia familiar, a menudo sin saberlo. Creo que si hubiera sido un hijo, se habría hecho más referencia a ella.

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  Padre, Hijo, Pensamiento

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• 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 taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

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  Love You, Divorce, Men

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

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  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Heart

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• Eleanor [Marx] participó en la resolución del congreso de París de 1889 que estableció el Primero de Mayo como manifestación anual de la solidaridad internacional del trabajo en la reivindicación de una jornada legal de ocho horas.

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  Eight, Paris, Demand

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• La lucha contra los horarios injustos es como la lucha por una jornada laboral regulada: es gente que lucha por unas condiciones razonables en el trabajo y por tener una vida, para poder tener algo de ocio.

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  Fighting, People, Leisure

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

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  Thinking, Stories, Biographies

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• 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 zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.

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  Zero, Men, Issues

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

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  Eight, Goal, May

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• For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

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  Fascination, Biographies, Individual

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

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  Deeds, Action, Eleanor

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• My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.

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  Mother, Childhood, Parent

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• The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

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  Nice, Pleasing Others, People

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• 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.

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  Writing, Decision, Shapes

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• 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.

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  Bangs, Biographies, Individual

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• 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.

  Rachel Holmes

  Keys, People, Feminism

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