A Woman in Love and War: Vera Brittain was a television docudrama on the life of Vera Brittain and her experiences in the First World War. It was first broadcast on Remembrance Sunday 2008 on BBC One. It was presented by Jo Brand. The programme included interviews with Brittain's daughter Shirley Williams, Brittain's biographer Mark Bostridge, and Roland Leighton's nephew David Leighton.
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“Meek wifehood is no part of my profession;
I am your friend, but never your possession.”
—Vera Brittain (1896–1970)
“Assumptions of male superiority are as widespread and deep rooted and every bit as crippling to the woman as the assumptions of white supremacy are to the Negro.... this is no more a man’s world than it is a white world.”
—Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, African American civil rights organization. SNCC Position Paper (Women in the Movement)
“I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That’s the one thing I’m indebted to her for.”
—Otis Criblecoblis, U.S. screenwriter. W.C. Fields (W.C. Fields)
“Life’s like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it’s the ninth inning.”
—Martin Goldsmith, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Vera (Ann Savage)
“All that a pacifist can undertake—but it is a very great deal—is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.”
—Vera Brittain (1896–1970)