Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 24 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Women book by Kristin Hannah. I hope you will like them too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The Women Quotes
- You can’t be out here alone. Not all soldiers are gentlemen […]. You gotta be careful. Over here, the men lie and they die.
- I want it all. A husband, a kid, a career. A big ole life that ends when I can barely get out of my rocker, with kids and animals and friends all around me. You’ll find out what you want over here, too. I promise.
- I know how you feel right now. We all do. We’ve been there. You’re thinking you screwed up by signing up for ‘Nam, thinking you don’t belong. But let me tell you, kid, it doesn’t matter where you’re from or how you grew up or what god you believe in, if you’re here, you’re among friends. We’ve got you.
- The world changes for men. For women, it stays pretty much the same.
- Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them.
- It was the way of Vietnam; people came, they did their tour, and they left. The lucky ones, flew home in one piece. Some wanted parties for their send-off and some wanted to slip away in silence. Some wanted both. Either way, you woke up one day and your friend was just gone.
- War was full of goodbyes, and most of them never really happened; you were always too early or too late.
- There was no winning in war. Not this war, anyway. There was just pain and death and destruction; good men coming home either broken beyond repair or in body bags, and bombs dropping on civilians, and a generation of children being orphaned. How could all this death and destruction be the way to stop communism? How could America be doing the right thing, dropping all these bombs – many on villages full of the old and the young – and using napalm to burn whatever was left?
- Life was too short to miss out on anything because of an older generation’s rules.
- War looked one way for those who saw it from a safe distance. Close up, the view was different.
- Life over here is short and regret lasts forever. Maybe happy now, happy for a moment, is all we really get. Happy forever seems a shitload to ask in a world on fire.
- The world might be changing, but we women are still second-class citizens. And Black women. Well. You do the math.
- Nothing soothes the soul like a gallop in the sunshine.
- Thank God for girlfriends. In this crazy, chaotic, divided world that was run by men, you could count on the women.
- Riding horses was restorative to one’s sense of peace.
- It’s not disrespectful to protest. We had that wrong. It takes guts to stand up and demand a change.
- America wasn’t preserving democracy or fighting communism in Vietnam, and it certainly wasn’t winning. Ultimately too many lives would be lost in pursuit of nothing.
- This is one of those times in life where it doesn’t matter if you’re ready. I hear it all the time from people: parenthood is a plunge into the deep end. Always.
- Love in this screwed-up world is always worth celebrating.
- Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark.
- Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
- Success and money couldn’t insulate a family from loss or hardship. Walls around a house were no guarantee of safety, not in a world that was constantly shifting.
- We were the last believers, my generation. We trusted what our parents taught us about right and wrong, good and evil, the American myth of equality and justice and honor. I wonder if any generation will ever believe again.
- Life was like that, it was all wrong until suddenly it was right, and you didn’t really know how to react in either instance.