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{{quote|'''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?''
{{quote|'''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]]''}}
'''Marcus''': ''For her. We live for the One. We die...for the One. In Valen's name.''
|''[[Babylon 5]]''}}


{{quote|''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]]''}}
{{quote|''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]]''}}


{{quote|''The Maid and her soldiers [[Serious Business|will have the victory]]. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, [[Don't Make Me Destroy You|should not destroy yourself.]]''|'''Joan of Arc ''' [http://www.cracked.com/article_19403_the-10-greatest-uses-trash-talk-in-history-war_p2.html Cracked.com]}}
{{quote|''The Maid and her soldiers [[Serious Business|will have the victory]]. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, [[Don't Make Me Destroy You|should not destroy yourself.]]''
|'''Joan of Arc ''' [http://www.cracked.com/article_19403_the-10-greatest-uses-trash-talk-in-history-war_p2.html Cracked.com]}}


Women can make positively messianic war leaders, evoking through the interaction of the [[The Dulcinea Effect| 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.
{{quote|''Women can make positively messianic war leaders, evoking through the interaction of the [[The Dulcinea Effect| 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''}}


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John Keegan, ''A History of Warfare''
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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.

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 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

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