Vera Brittain Short Quotes

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Most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

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Few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

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The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet's eyes.

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It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

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

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The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

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We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

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I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

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An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

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The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

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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.

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However deep our devotion may be to parents, or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

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Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

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So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

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