During the Greek Civil War, women experienced multiple forms of violence: torture, rape, shaving, humiliation, persecution, exile, incarceration, execution. They also experienced a form of violence that disrupted their struggle for political and social equality, initiated in the interwar period that climaxed during their en masse participation in the anti-Nazi Resistance: being retrapped in their homes and conforming to the national-minded ideology of “Fatherland-Religion-Family.” We argue that women of the Greek Civil War were allowed to engage in politics so long as their political action did not challenge the national-minded status quo and that the civil war functioned as Symplegades—the Cyanean rocks of Greek mythology that clashed together whenever a vessel went through—for their political and social rights: opening for a moment and then closing and wounding them. In order to shed light on this, we analyze two examples: the human rights struggle of female family members (especially mothers) of political exiles and prisoners and the struggle for women’s suffrage.