Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“At this time of the year it seems that everything ought to be creative, not destructive, and that we should encourage things to live… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“Mother says that people like me just become intellectual old maids,' I told him. 'I don't see why,' he protested. 'Oh, well, it's probably… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“It is quite impossible to understand,’ I commented afterwards, ‘how we can be such strong individualists, so insistent on the rights and claims of… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“[I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.” — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on,… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
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