Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.
Vera BrittainFew of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.
Vera BrittainMost men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.
Vera BrittainThe joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.
Vera Brittain