Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittain was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist 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.
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Background
- Born in
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Educated at
- Somerville College
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"I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fea…"
"All that a pacifist can undertake—but it is a very great deal—is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love …"
"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."
"For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was n…"
"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."
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1893
Born
Birth1970
Died
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