"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be……" — Rebecca West

"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."

— Rebecca West

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85 Quotes by Rebecca West

Rebecca West has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical…
The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to…
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather…
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless…
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them…
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to…
Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up…

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More Horse Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines… — Karen Armstrong
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. — Saint Augustine
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a… — Marcus Aurelius
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my… — Tyra Banks
The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. — Joey Adams
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. — John Adams
Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it… — Johnny Bench
I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. — Buffalo Bill

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