Cynthia Dill Quotes

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

It's possible that in the future, women could be drafted not only into the military... but actually drafted into combat. I'm very uncomfortable with that.

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

We saw the integration of the female pilots in the Navy, in combat roles, and the resistance there in the beginning.

It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.

I feel extremely fortunate that I can be a fighter pilot and not a female fighter pilot.

I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated environment, and, I think, just being in the military for 26 years have all helped me.

The military is already sexually integrated.

I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

I have never met a woman … whom I would trust with combat leadership…. The Naval Academy is a horny woman’s dream.

I’d be hard pressed to say that any woman who serves in Afghanistan today or who’s served in Iraq over the last few years did so without facing the same risks as their male counterparts.

It is time for the U. S. military to get over its hang-ups and acknowledge women’s rightful place on the battlefield…. There are physically fit, tough women who are suitable for combat, and weak and feeble men who are not.

The CAA says that women are psychologically not fitted to be pilots, but I see pictures every now and then of women who are teaching men to fly. We know that in England, where the need is great, women are ferrying planes and freeing innumerable men for combat service.

I understand the sensitivity of issues regarding women in the military.

I had medevacked so many women off the battlefield that I knew that it was a misnomer to say that women weren't in combat. I had friends that were Marines that were taken to fight the enemy. They weren't just firing in defense of their position.

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.

I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do, and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.