Jeanne D'Archetype/Quotes

"Neroon:Why? Why all of this? Pride? Duty? You've been trained well, but you must've known you couldn't win. So why do it? Marcus: For her. We live for the One. We die...for the One. In Valen's name."

- Babylon 5

"And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh."

- The Bible

"The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself."

- Joan of Arc Cracked.com

Women can make positively messianic war leaders, evoking through the interaction of the complex chemistry of femininity with masculine responses a degree of loyalty and self-sacrifice from their male followers which a man might well fail to call forth.

John Keegan, A History of Warfare