People Can So Easily Be Tempted By

In The Book Soldiers On The Home Front, I Was Greatly Struck By The Fact That In Childbirth Alone, Women Commonly Suffer More Pain, Illness And Misery Than Any War Hero Ever Does. An What's Her Reward For Enduring All That Pain? She Gets Pushed Aside When She's Disfigured By Birth, Her Children Soon Leave, Hear Beauty Is Gone. Women, Who Struggle And Suffer Pain To Ensure The Continuation Of The Human Race, Make Much Tougher And More Courageous Soldiers Than All Those Big-mouthed Freedom-fighting Heroes Put Together.

You Can Get Around To Meaningful Conversations More Quickly In The Dark Than With The Sun Tickling Your Face.

I Must Work, So As Not To Be A Fool, To Get On, To Become A Journalist, Because That's What I Want!... I Can't Imagine That I Would Have To Lead The Same Sort Of Life As Mummyand All The Women Who Do Their Work And Are Then Forgotten. I Must Have Something Besides A Husband And Children, Something That I Can Devote Myself To!

Dead People Receive More Flowers Than The Living Ones Because The Regret Is Stronger Than Gratitude.

Our Many Jewish Friends And Acquaintances Are Being Taken Away In Droves. The Gestapo Is Treating Them Very Roughly And Transporting Them In Cattle Cars To Westerbork, The Big Camp In Drenthe To Which They're Sending All The Jews....if It's That Bad In Holland, What Must It Be Like In Those Faraway And Uncivilized Places Where The Germans Are Sending Them? We Assume That Most Of Them Are Being Murdered. The English Radio Says They're Being Gassed.