Quotes by : Rebecca West

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal....

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Now, why did Kitty, who was the falsest thing on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsity, by....

The word “idiot” comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent....

She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had....

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me....

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just....

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

Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure....