Thursday Quotes: Tobias Buckell's The Executioness

"I've seen the remains of war. And the men never seem to remember the women running form the sword who guide the army's packhorses to the frontline, and they always forget who bandaged the wounded through every skirmish. When the songs are sung about great battles, the women who helped sustain, feed, and build the army, who donated their husband to the cause: they are always somehow forgotten. You forget that they are just as good at war as men. They fade in your memory only because they didn't share the glory of the front line, even though they often shared the losses and death."