Army Wives Quotes

“The situations we Army wives
have to deal with are not normal ones at all. The nomadic life
we lead, moving from station to station, being separated from
our husbands for long stretches of time, and the constant fear
that we live with if our husbands are anywhere near the sensitive
areas in the country . . .”
― Aditi Mathur Kumar, Soldier and Spice - An Army Wife's Life

“Sorry," he apologized. "I didn't mean to inflict my rantings on you, even though we are destined to spend the rest of our lives together. I don't suppose you fave any thought to where we should be married while I was in with that lot of fools, did you?"

"Yes," she said. "I decided we shouldn't, that wartime attachments are a bad idea. Particularly if you're going to be lassoing flying bombs.”
― connie willis, All Clear

“The FRG … was the closest thing any of them had to family, this simulacrum of friendship, women suddenly thrown together in a time of duress, with no one to depend on but each other, all of them bereft and left behind in this dry expanse of central Texas, walled in by strip malls, chain restaurants, and highways that led to better places. Most of them had gotten used to making life for themselves without a husband, finding doctors and dentists and playgrounds, filling their cell phones with numbers and their calendars with playdates, and then the husbands would return and the Army would toss them all at some other base in the middle of nowhere to begin again.”
― Siobhan Fallon, You Know When the Men Are Gone

“Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don’t do it to win anymore; we do it because it’s what we know how to do. Get ready to go. Get ready to come back. And the moments in between we mark on the calendar. It’s our battle rhythm.”
― Angela Ricketts, No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

“समूचा देश बैठा है। कुछ यहाँ, कुछ टेलीविजन के सामने। नागरिक, राजनेता और बड़े अधिकारी तक, सब बैठे हैं वो औरत जो शहीद की पत्नी है, वही अकेली खड़ी है। अगर खड़ा होना सम्मान की बात है तो कम-से-कम कुछ मिनिट के लिए तो शहादत के सम्मान में सबको खड़ा हो जाना चाहिए।' कुसुम ने कहा।

'ये सम्मान पाने की सजा है या सजा की शुरूआत आज यहाँ से हो रही है।' लाउडस्पीकर की आवाज़ में उसके शब्द दब गए।”
― Vandana Yadav, कितने मोर्चे

“फौजियों के नाम और उनकी गौरव-गाथाएं उनकी युनिट में अक्सर दोहराई जाती हैं। कभी-कभी देश भी शायद उन्हें याद कर लेता होगा पर शहीद की पत्नी का कर्ज़ ये देश कैसे चुकाएगा? देश के लिए जान देने वाले सिपाहियों के बच्चों का जवाबदेह कौन है जो बिना बाप की छत्रछाया के बड़े होते हैं।' कुसुम अपनी ही धुन में बोले जा रही थी।”
― Vandana Yadav, कितने मोर्चे