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.
Rebecca WestTag: empowerment women opinions feminism clichés womens-liberation
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 WestTag: writing
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Rebecca Westwe disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously
Rebecca WestMan is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
Rebecca WestEach of us has always hoped that a stranger would come who would scatter holy water on the image of the other and lay it for ever
Rebecca WestI always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.
Rebecca WestIt isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.
Rebecca Westworks of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.
Rebecca WestThe main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
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