A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.
Rebecca WestSubmission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.
Rebecca Westworks of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.
Rebecca WestDomesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.
Rebecca West