“We are very aware that we are in the middle of a war. But we are still continuing our calm and monotonous lives.”

As quoted at the Women's Museum Istanbul http://istanbulkadinmuzesi.org/en/zabel-yesayan/?tur=Alfabetik

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Armenian writer 1878–1943

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