Not original (and don't know the source, sorry), but I thought this was so brilliant as to deserve quoting here:
"If I was an enemy soldier facing women troops, it would be the silences I couldn't handle. The never quite knowing what I had done wrong, or when she was about to erupt and their angry, steely glances across no-mans land. If ever one of them said "It's OK, nothings wrong..", I would simply drop my rifle and run."