Rebecca West: Likeness

Rebecca West was British feminist and author. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Rebecca West: 76 quotes1 like

“The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”

"The Salt of the Earth"
Source: The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

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

Source: The Book Of Military Quotations

“It’s extraordinary the really tragic and dreadful things there are in marriage which are funny. I’ve never known anybody to write about this. My husband would insist on going and driving a car, and he’d never been a good driver. Like all bad drivers, he thought he was the best driver in the world and he couldn’t drive at all at the end and it was terrible.”

Source: The Paris Review interview (1981), p. 17

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

Letter (20 August 1959), as quoted in Victoria Glendinning, Rebecca West: A Life (1987), Part 5, Chapter 8, p. 206

“There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.”

Speech to the Fabian Society (1928) "Dame Rebecca West Dies in London" http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/10/specials/west-obit.html, The New York Times (16 March 1983)