Vera Brittain
Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittainwas an English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 December 1893
break-up husband reading
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
mercy providence should
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
husband want may
It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.
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Venice is all sea and sculpture ...
humanity world levels
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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I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.