When Women Were Warriors Quotes

#1. I believe that many modern women, my mother included, carry within them a whole secret New England cemetery, wherein they have quietly buried- in neat little rows- the personal dreams they have given up for their families

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to do our work without our protection." He pointed to the trees, emphatically. "That's the language I share with them.

Melina Marchetta

#3. Children, like God, see only our actions.

Marty Rubin

#4. Women, music, beer, and pie. Rurik, you're just an all-American guy.

Linda Howard

#5. I've got one thing to say: I killed a lot of germans, and I'm only sorry I didn't kill more.

Nancy Wake

#6. Men like you should be left to the mercy of women like me.

Sam J. Charlton

#7. Barbarian
A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.

Piers Anthony

#8. Were there once only women warriors, Mother?" "Don't know." "Oh." I started to get up. "Makes sense," she said. "Why?" "Who else should take a life? No man ever brought a child out of his body.

Catherine M. Wilson

#9. The world is witnessing first hand, live on television, the hearts ofAmerican warriors - and the spirit and pride only displayed by magnificent young men and women who are volunteers in the fight for the cause of freedom. Its all about heart.

Ada F Kay

#10. Imagine the ability to let go of everything. To step back from the expectations of life, let it all slip through your fingers as though none of it mattered. Your doubts, your fears, your weaknesses, all of them falling like grains of sand into the wind. It feels like freedom, but it's an illusion.

Pippa DaCosta

#11. In the midst of escaping from Imperial warriors was definitely the wrong time to be mentally undressing flying women.

Michelle M. Pillow

#12. Seraphine, Seraphine, Seraphine. O most beloved of women, most fiery of saints, never leave me, please. I'll erect columns of white marble to you, build gardens of delights for you, cause ships to sail and warriors to rise for you, if you'll only remain by my side.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#13. This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings
honors, treasures, beautiful women
accessible even to cowards.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. transformed, and transported by one specific guide - a visionary, an activist, an outrageous fighter and dreamer. I have come to know these women (and sometimes men) as Vagina Warriors.

Eve Ensler

#15. Three days. A war fought over a woman could go three suns as easily. Or three hundred.

F.T. McKinstry

#16. We are warriors." "And yet a moment ago, you were women." "Mother, I swear it, I am doing all I can." "And I am sorry, daughter, but you are going to have to do more.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. The Chinese did not admire a bent back; goddesses and warriors stood straight. Still there must have been a marvelous freeing of beauty when a worker laid down her burden and stretched and arched.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#18. As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.

Al Franken

#19. A nathion is as strong as the hearts of its women. It's warriors may be brave and many, but when the blood of it's women spills upon the earth, the battle is lost.

Pam Godwin

#20. Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Voltaire

#21. Powerful men need a woman as a sign of their power. Strong women do not need a man, she either wants him or she doesn't.

Chloe Thurlow

#22. A nation is not conquered,
Until the hearts of it's women
Are on the ground.
then it is done, no matter
How brave it's warriors,
Or how strong it's weapons.

Rosemary Agonito

#23. Here's what's interesting about women. When it comes to their babies, when it comes to their children, they become these financial warriors like I have never seen before. They will not turn their back on the battlefield.

Suze Orman

#24. Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.

Craig Kelly

#25. [I]n America,
wrongs can be righted,
warriors can wear skirts and blouses,
and the bravest hearts
may beat in girls
only five feet tall.

Michelle Markel

#26. Constant was a male and Mrs. Rumfoord was a female, and Constant imagined that he had the means of demonstrating, if given the opportunity, his unquestionable superiority.

Kurt Vonnegut

#27. Sometimes life itself rewards our early investments.

Dixie Waters

#28. Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Suzanne Fields

#29. Never prove people right. Never prove them wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life.

Katina Ferguson

#30. They are heroes, our soldiers, the men and women who go into harm's way to protect us, our way of life. It doesn't matter what you think of the war, your have to be grateful to the warriors, of whom we ask so much. To whom we sometimes give too little.

Kristin Hannah

#31. Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.

John Gibbon

#32. It would be better for you if you were not my friend."
"It's too late for that," I told her.

Catherine M. Wilson

#33. I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.

Sonia Johnson

#34. It seemed to me a wicked tale, to blame a woman for men's folly.

Catherine M. Wilson