“Oh, life!”

— Vera Brittain , book Testament of Youth

I silently petitioned the future... if I do finally decide to marry G. and have a family — and I’m not absolutely certain, yet, that I really want to do either — please grant that I have only daughters; I’m afraid, in the world as it is, to have a son. Our generation is condemned, condemned, and the League, and all that it stands for, is only a brittle toy in the hands of ruthless, primeval forces!”
Source: Testament of Youth (1933), Chapter XII 'Another Stranger'

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English writer 1893–1970

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