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Great War
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If but a fraction of the active torment or dull misery of the war combatants could have been transferred, not by the clumsy interpretation of picture, written or spoken word, but by some mind current affecting another human’s sensation, lighting up in another mind the unassailable and uncommunicable direct apprehension of pain, then the war would have come to an end in less weeks than it endured years.
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During the conflict that was placed before them, they not only gained the gratitude of many in their own generation but they proved, for the first time on a global scale, the enormous value of a woman’s contribution, paving the way for future generations of women to do the same.
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― Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics
― Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics
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