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

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• Rebecca West:

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

• Rebecca West:

  Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so

• Rebecca West:

  It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

• Rebecca West:

  Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication bet

• Rebecca West:

  I write books to find out about things.

• Rebecca West:

  Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

• Rebecca West:

  Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

• Rebecca West:

  Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

• Rebecca West:

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

• Rebecca West:

  It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.