“ People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat. Rebecca West
“ Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. 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
“ Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. Rebecca West
“ There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. 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
“ The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. Rebecca West
“ [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… Rebecca West
“ The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. Rebecca West
“ Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology. Rebecca West
“ It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. 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
“ 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
