Rebecca West Quotes

Rebecca West Quotes

Rebecca West Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Rebecca West:

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

"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."

"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."