“Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The id...” — Svetlana Alexievich Quote

“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.”

“Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.”

“I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings.”

“Rejoice in the great, free emancipation of peoples.”

“To me the Sweet 16 party is somewhat of a emancipation or right of passage.”

“By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.”