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People call me a feminist whe...

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

Rebecca West 246 quotes

the law, like art, is always ...

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

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The adventure is over. Everyt...

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

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Hatred of domestic work is a ...

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.

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I don't believe that to under...

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

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Idiocy is the female defect ....

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

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If it be ungentlemanly to kis...

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

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She saw she had fallen into t...

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

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Literature must be an analysi...

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

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Yes,” said Mamma, “this is th...

Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

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I have no faith in the sense ...

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

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I wonder if we are all wrong ...

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

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It is the soul's duty to be l...

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

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Life ought to be a struggle o...

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

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The American struggle for the...

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

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Before a war military science...

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

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I do not think women understa...

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

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But once a culture develops s...

But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment; it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.

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I find to my astonishment tha...

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

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Bad art is maintained by the ...

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

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