Rebecca West
Author
1892-12-21
Books by Rebecca West
-
-
-
Rebecca West, a Celebration
View on Amazon
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Quotes by Rebecca West
-
People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.
Read quote -
I will believe that the battle of feminism is over, and that the female has reached a position of equality with the male, when I hear that a country has allowed itself to be turned upside-down and led to the brink of war by its passion for a totally bald woman writer.
Read quote -
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Read quote -
She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.
Read quote -
To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.
Read quote -
Now, why did Kitty, who was the falsest thing on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsity, by merely suffering somehow remind us of reality? Why did her tears reveal to me what I had learned long ago, but had forgotten in my frenzied love, that there is a draft that we must drink or not be fully human? I knew that one must know the truth. I knew quite well that when one is adult one must raise to one's lips the wine of the truth, heedless that it is not sweet like milk, but draws the mouth with its strength, and celebrate communion with reality[.]
Read quote -
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
Read quote -
[On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If she criticized the institutions of earth, it was because she had very definite ideas regarding the institutions of heaven.
Read quote -
I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.
Read quote -
Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted. If one's own existence has no form, if its events do not come handily to mind and disclose their significance, we feel about ourselves as if we were reading a bad book.
Read quote -
Art covers not even a corner of life, only a knot or two here and there, far apart and without relation to the pattern. How could we hope that it would ever bring order and beauty to the whole of that vast and intractable fabric, that sail flapping in the contrary winds of the universe?
Read quote -
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.
Read quote -
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Read quote -
Yes,— said Mamma, —this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.
Read quote -
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
Read quote -
I will believe that the battle of feminism is over, and that the female has reached a position of equality with the male, when I hear that a country has allowed itself to be turned upside-down and led to the brink of war by its passion for a totally bald woman writer.
Read quote -
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Read quote -
[On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If she criticized the institutions of earth, it was because she had very definite ideas regarding the institutions of heaven.
Read quote -
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
Read quote -
She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.
Read quote