Art Quote by Chath Piersath

“Ironically, the memory of the women heroes of World War I was largely eclipsed by the very women they had inspired. The more blatant…

— Kathryn J. Atwood

“There were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved spinsterhood with…

— Muriel Spark

“But most of these women -- the famous and the obscure -- had one thing in common: they did not think of themselves as…

— Kathryn J. Atwood

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book…

— Asne Seierstad

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

— Doris Lessing

I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty…

— J. D. Vance

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

— Anna Brownell Jameson

At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few…

— Cynthia Kadohata

I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my…

— Laura Carmichael

“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded…

— Karen White

From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to…

— Charles Frazier

“The paper detritus that she had somewhere read, or had heard it said, trails armies, or was it (she had seen a photograph) the…

— Alice McDermott