Women and War, with a new epilogue Quotes

“In a time of dislocation, the Manichean view- we, the “good versus them, the “bad” -is, though comfortable, also false and dangerous. False, as I myself know remembering a little girl who wanted a gun and a brother who did not[...]. Dangerous because this simplistic view depends on rigid notions of what men and women are in relation to war and of war itself as an absolute contrast to peace.”
― Jean Bethke Elshtain, Women and War, with a new epilogue