Looking at Women Looking at War Quotes

“The response to truth is often even more truth; that is why regimes fear even small bits of it.”
― Victoria Amelina, Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary

“Since February 24, 2022, I turned from a writer into a war crimes researcher and then learned to be both to tell you, the world, the story of Ukrainian civil society’s quest for justice. Now there should also be a story of me learning to be a mother to my eleven-year-old son. But I’ll let him tell this one in the hope that our children and loved ones will understand, respect, and forgive our choices.”
― Victoria Amelina, Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary

“It's the first time I see Larysa without makeup, in gray, non-descript clothes, and with a lost look on her face. She was always the brightest, a brunette with beautiful eyes, flowery suits, colorful jewelry, and an incomparable expertise in law and women's rights. Now, a month after the full-scale Russian invasion, it seems that only the expertise remains. Larysa looks like her own shadow. I brought her colorful candies as a present; she is looking at them in disbelief as if colors all went away, broke into shades, and disappeared as if washed away by tears.

She talks, I listen. She has been listening to women throughout her law career. I have to listen to her now. Suddenly, she stops, looks at me, and asks:
"Can you see the future? I mean, I can see today, but I try to imagine our life in several years and I cannot. Even half a year or a month is hard. I just don't see it."
"I see it," I say.
She waits for me to elaborate.
"I see the future. I mean, we might get hit by the Iskanders at this very moment but at the same time, I somehow see Ukraine after the war. I don't know if we are in the future, but there is Ukraine after the war." I say, and turn away.”
― Victoria Amelina, Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary