"People call me a feminist whenever I express……" — Rebecca West
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
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85 Quotes by Rebecca West
Rebecca West has 85 quotes on this site.
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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical…
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to…
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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather…
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Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless…
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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them…
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to…
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Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up…
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