To rescue mankind from that domination by the irrational which leads to war could surely be a more exultant fight than war itself, a fight capable of… - Vera Brittain

Sometimes... I’ve wished I’d never met you — that you hadn’t come to take away my impersonal attitude towards the War and make it a cause of suffering to me as it is to thousands of others. But if I could choose not to have met you, I wouldn’t do it — even though my future had always to be darkened by the shadow of death....[He asked me] "Would you like me any less if I was, say, minus an arm?..." My reply need not be recorded. It brought the tears so near to the surface again that I picked up the coat which I had thrown off, and abruptly said I would lake it upstairs which I did the more promptly when I suddenly realised that he was nearly crying too.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.