Quotes by Rebecca West
“Before the war, my work was thoroughly modern in spirit, particularly in its sense of the futility of all human endeavor.”— Rebecca West
“A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.”— Rebecca West
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”— Rebecca West
“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.”— Rebecca West
“There is no such thing as a plain fact, brutal and plain, in this world. A fact is a detail in a pattern.”— Rebecca West
“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.”— Rebecca West
“It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.”— Rebecca West
“Mothering is the strangest thing, it's translation. You do it by instinct, and you don't know why, you just do it.”— Rebecca West
“Everyone realizes that one can’t be a tramp and a gentleman at the same time. The two professions are mutually exclusive.”— Rebecca West
“If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed a good idea at the time.'”— Rebecca West