Bliss Quote by Michelle Monaghan

I was very limited as a women. Getting the men in the military to see that the medical facilities were unhealthy was very difficult,…

— Florence Nightingale

The issues facing working women and their families are closest to my heart. I decided to focus intently on the challenges military wives face…

— Michelle Obama

When I married into the military a few years ago, I was failing at navigating the realities of deployment alone. When I turned to…

— Brianna Keilar

I have spent 41 years in uniform, three long tours in Iraq, one in Afghanistan, and everywhere I went on a battlefield, there were…

— Lloyd Austin

We became consumed with preparing to go on a deployment, going on the deployment, coming back, and getting ready to go again. We stopped…

— Martin Dempsey

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in…

— Melissa Bean

My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My…

— Annie Leibovitz

Military families become familiar with trying to contort their lives around deployments and separations.

— Brianna Keilar

I personally served on active duty with many women service members who consistently demonstrated tremendous skill, leadership, and unquestioned commitment.

— Ralph Northam

Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with…

— Renee Montagne

I've been corresponding with a few women who are actively deployed in Iraq, and that's been incredibly eye-opening. It's such a different perspective on…

— Taylor Schilling

As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,…

— Al Franken