Philip Schmidt
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“When a war was ended, the men lost their lives. But the women lost everything else.”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships

“It does hurt, I whispered. It should hurt. She isn't a footnote, she's a person. And she - all the Trojan women - should be memorialised as much as any other person.”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships

“A war does not ignore half the people whose lives it touches. So why do we?”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships

“Sing, Muse," he said, and I have sung. I have sung of armies and I have sung of men. I have sung of gods and monsters, I have sung of stories and lies. I have sung of death and of life, of joy and of pain. I have sung of life after death. And I have sung of the women, the women in the shadows. I have sung of the forgotten, the ignored, the untold.”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships
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