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We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean. — Rae Armantrout

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

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

You know you wouldn't be happy unless you married an odd sort of person — Vera Brittain

I watch sitcoms like Seinfeld, and here's a newsflash, but what a great show. — Scott Wolf

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

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

Life happens. Love happens. You gotta take some chances. — Marie Force

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

Politics is the executive expression of human immaturity. — 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

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation — Vera Brittain

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

My heart is a garden tired with autumn. — Sara Teasdale

When I got tired of going to school, I was kind of overqualified for a lot of jobs. Kind of underqualified for a lot of others. — Robert Weinberg

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge. — Yo-Yo Ma

Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not — Amit Abraham

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

This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it - so few people, so many opinions? — Katarina Bivald

[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

Corsetry is a body modification. — Dita Von Teese

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

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

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

The only thing we are sure to fail is that which we do not attempt — Paul-Emile Victor

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