First world war Quote by Lyn Macdonald

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Aye, she thought, women must ever wait and steel their hearts against loneliness and fear; and the men would go riding out to war…

— Jan Cox Speas

“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

“They were women then My mama's generation Husky of voice stout of Step With fists as well as Hands How they battered down Doors…

— Alice Walker

“The girls couldn't block out these things and they didn't want to; they wanted to stay acutely aware of the war against them so…

— Sara Marcus

“We were girls in plaid skirts, loud and obnoxious, driving with the windows down. Capable students, nailing honor roll every year, despite our reputation.…

— Colleen Curran

“As well as the [League of Nations] delegates themselves and their suites, there were innumerable campaigners of one sort and another, male and female,…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“she had always considered that, far from the world of Ealing and its county councillors who over-ate and neighed like stallions, there were bright…

— Ford Madox Ford

“It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some way invading…

— Jan Greenberg

“The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“But he never looked at his daughter, and strode out of the room, leaving in the minds of the women a sense, half of…

— Virginia Woolf

“They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose…

— Kathleen Tessaro