To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

I must fight
Til I have conquered
In myself
what causes war

Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.'
'And that's why you don't fight,'I say.
She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.

"You always have a choice," she spat. "You fight until you see you're beaten, and then you keep on fighting."

to fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that your life and your death
will not be like
theirs.

"Well, life has been a baffled vehicle
And baffling. But she fights, and
Has fought, according to her lights and
The lenience of her whirling-place.

She fights with semi-folded arms,
Her strong bag, and the stiff
Frost of her face (that challenges "When" and "If.")
And altogether she does Rather Well."

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

"If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors."