Rebecca West

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

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

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.

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.

An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

There was 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.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

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

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.