ABSTRACT
On the eve of World War I, Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914), the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1905), called upon women to express their feelings concerning war:
We won't be deterred by the accusation of being sentimentalists. We women have the right to show our feelings. Over the ages… we as mothers have had the privilege of hating war… Let our hearts speak… 1
