There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire
September 3, 2014 5:50 PM Subscribe
When I sat down with one of my senior professors in Durban, South Africa to talk about my Master’s thesis, he asked me why I wanted to write about women resistance fighters.
“Because women made up twenty percent of the ANC’s militant wing!” I gushed. “Twenty percent! When I found that out I couldn’t believe it. And you know – women have never been part of fighting forces –”
He interrupted me. “Women have always fought,” he said.
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Better Identification of Viking Corpses Reveals: Half of the Warriors Were Female
Invasion of the Viking Women Unearthed
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