Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creatu… - Vera Brittain
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creatu…
- Vera Brittain
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 except to see. - Vera Brittain
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 except to see.
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession. - Vera Brittain
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.
It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands. - Vera Brittain
It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.
College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation - Vera Brittain
College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation
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 matter how long the war lasts… - Vera Brittain
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 matter how long the war lasts…
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. - Vera Brittain
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. - Vera Brittain
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous. - Vera Brittain
most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.
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