Vera Brittain Quotes

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• I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced…
• I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.
• Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
• Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so…
• I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no…
• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
• I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
• There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward…
• We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
• Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.
• It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.
• I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting…
• It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.
• The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
• Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worthwhile - husbands and books and committees and being loved…
• The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those…
• The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
• All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering…

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