Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women’s emancipation is only a slogan in – but also, I should say, in many places outside – the Soviet Union. But especially in the militaristic Soviet society, people only thought of life in terms of struggle and the workers’ toil. Svetlana Alexievich Read Quote
Showing just the dark side doesn’t always work. The important thing is to show what we can learn from dark things, what good we find there. Svetlana Alexievich Read Quote
I used to live in a village, and I always loved listening to old people. Unfortunately, it was always women who were talking, because after the war, very few men were around. I spent my entire life living in the village. The village is always talking about itself; people are talking to each other as the village makes sense of itself. Svetlana Alexievich Read Quote
All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again. Svetlana Alexievich Read Quote
Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now. Svetlana Alexievich Read Quote
Women’s’ war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things. Svetlana Alexievich Read Quote
Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper. Svetlana Alexievich Read Quote
Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us. Svetlana Alexievich Read Quote
