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At college, more than anywhere else, one was likely to make the friendships that supported one through life.
— Vera Brittain
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.
— Vera Brittain
There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation.
— Vera Brittain
Venice is all sea and sculpture ...
— Vera Brittain
Her mind was like a spring-tide in full flood; rich, shining, vigorous, and capable of infinite variety.
— Vera Brittain
I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.
— Vera Brittain
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive
substitute for war. — Vera Brittain
substitute for war. — 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
What I hope we can learn is to be aware of how our beliefs color what we see. I wanted to tell Brittain that Lemry was trying
— Chris Crutcher
College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation
— Vera Brittain
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer ... is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
— Vera Brittain
Politics is the executive expression of human immaturity.
— Vera Brittain
An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.
— Vera Brittain
When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.
— Vera Brittain
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
— Vera Brittain
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
— Vera Brittain
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible ... one or the other must go.
— Vera Brittain
[I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.
— Vera Brittain
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
— Vera Brittain
The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.
— Vera Brittain
There seemed to be nothing left in the world, for I felt that Roland had taken with him all my future and Edward all my past.
— Vera Brittain