Women During The Civil War Quotes & Sayings

We live a life of privilege. That doesn't mean we can literally switch off these women, whose only fault was being born in the Congo during civil war. We need to bear witness. — Maria Semple

Had you told me 20 years ago this would be my life, I'd have gone "What?" and then stuck out my tongue to all the girls that were mean to me. — Katee Sackhoff

Perhaps you should spend less time despising the game and more time building the patients necessary to win. — Renee Ahdieh

(S)ome people go through their whole life just having one-night stands with the same person. — Scylla

Mother's Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother's Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict. — Gloria Steinem

Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer. — Jessi Klein

Though a picture tells a story, it may not reveal the truth. — Kris Waldherr