few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and… — 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
