Rebecca West Quotes

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

Rebecca West

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.

Rebecca West

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

Nothing succeeds like failure.

Rebecca West

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.

Rebecca West

Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.

Rebecca West

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

Rebecca West

Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so many people, and they so rarely murder anybody at all.

Rebecca West

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

Rebecca West

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West