Rebecca West
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time."
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
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.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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.
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.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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.