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{{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]}} |
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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. |
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. |
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John Keegan, ''A History of Warfare'' |
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? |
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.
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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
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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