Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?
Rebecca WestIt is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.
Rebecca WestThe childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.
Rebecca Westevery human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.
Rebecca WestIt's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.
Rebecca West