Women at War

When women speak [of war], they have nothing or almost nothing of what we are used to reading and hearing about: How certain people heroically killed other people and won. Or lost. What equipment there was, and which generals. Women's stories are different and about different things. 'Women's' war has its own colours, its own smells, its own lighting and its own range of feelings. Its own words. There are no heroes and incredible feats, there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things.

(Destruction: quote. Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War)