Iran-iraq War/home Front

Famous quotes containing the words war, home and/or front:

    “At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.”
    —Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)

    “Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “After decades of unappreciated drudgery, American women just don’t do housework any more—that is, beyond the minimum that is required in order to clear a path from the bedroom to the front door so they can get off to work in the mourning.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)