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Join the roomVera Mary Brittain foi uma enfermeira do Destacamento de Auxílio Voluntário (VAD) inglês, escritora, feminista, socialista e pacifista. Seu best-seller de memórias de 1933, Testament of Youth, relatou suas experiências durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial e o início de sua jornada em direção ao pacifismo.
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“Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.”
“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 creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.”
“It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.”
“Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.”
“We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.