Always Quote by Margaret MacMillan

I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

— Zainab Salbi

“Women’s” war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. Its own words. There are no…

— Svetlana Alexievich

'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

— Michael Morpurgo

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

— Ralph Peters

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

— James Ellroy

“The whole point of war is to put women everywhere in that condition. It's always men against women, with the men only pretending to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn…

— Tim O'Brien

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge…

— William Broyles, Jr

A great many of the epic fantasies, from The Lord of the Rings onward, are about war, but to my mind, a lot of…

— George R. R. Martin

I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical…

— Kameron Hurley

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction…

— Lillian Wald