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Quote #1
Lysistrata: "[The] salvation of all Greece lies in the women's hands."
Calonice: "In the women's hands? A precarious place to be!"
Lysistrata: "Yes, our country's future depends on us: whether the Peloponnesians become extinct—"
Calonice: "Well, that would be all right with me!"
Lysistrata: "… and all the Boeotians are annihilated—"
Calonice: "Not all of them, please—do spare the eels!"
Lysistrata: "I won't say anything like that about the Athenians; you get the point." (29-38)
In these lines, Lysistrata reveals how incredibly high the stakes are. The way she sees it, if she and the other women can't make Sparta and Athens agree to a peace treaty, all of Greece is likely to be destroyed in the war. Calonice's mind is more fixed on the material discomforts caused by war; the fact that international trade has been interrupted. Calonice is totally fine with massive bloodshed and the horrors of war, as long as she can have her tasty eels.
Quote #2
Lysistrata: "That's exactly what I think will rescue Greece: our fancy little dresses, our perfumes and our slippers, our rouge and our see-through underwear!"
Calonice: "Just how do you mean?"
Lysistrata: "They'll guarantee that not one of the men who are still alive will raise his spear against another—"
Calonice: "In that case, by the Two Goddesses, I'll have a dress dyed saffron!"
Lysistrata: "… nor hoist his shield—"
Calonice: "I'll wear a Cimberic gown!"
Lysistrata: "… nor even pull a knife!"
Calonice: "I'll go shopping for slippers!" (46-53)
Calonice is still generally kinda small-minded: she thinks that the suffering inflicted by war is fine, so long as it happens to somebody else—especially if that somebody else is one of the enemies of Athens. But just because she's somewhat narrow in her views doesn't mean Calonice thinks that war is a barrel of laughs. We can see that in this passage. The very second that Lysistrata suggests some way of putting an end to the war, Calonice jumps at the opportunity—no matter how crazy it sounds.
Quote #3
Lysistrata: "Don't you all pine for your children's fathers when they're off at war? I'm sure that every one of you has a husband away from home."
Calonice: "My husband's been away five months, my dear, at the Thracian front; he's guarding Eucrates."
Myrrhine: "And mine's been at Pylos seven whole months."
Lampito: "And mine, whenever he does come home from the regiment, is soon strapping on his shield and flying off again."
Calonice: "Even lovers have vanished without a trace. Ever since the Milesians revolted from us, I haven't even seen a six-inch dildo, which might have been a consolation, however small." (99-110)
Even though their main purpose is to be funny, these lines also show the terrible toll of war. The burden of war isn't just borne by the men who actually go out to the front lines and do the killing and dying; the women who are left behind also suffer, because they miss their husbands… and yeah, their Milesian dildos. The city of Miletus, which used to be under Athens's power, until it revolted, was renowned for manufacturing dildos (yup, you read that right). Now that it is Athens's enemy, this hot commodity is hard to come by.