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Women's Words On War

"Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it." -- Anne O'Hare McCormick

"I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: 'Mother, what was war?' " -- Eve Merriam

"When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think." -- Pat Schroeder

"The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television." -- Sophia Loren (herself a child of war)

"I am against all war." -- Sophia Loren

"There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war." -- Marianne Moore

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." -- Agatha Christie

"Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being." -- Ellen Key