Quotes of Wartime - somelinesforyou

“ To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says. ”

- Slavenka Drakulic

“ In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig. ”

- Claud Cockburn

“ The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now… ”

- Linda Grant

“ Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means. ”

- Elisabeth Kubler Ross
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