The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Rebecca WestIt isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.
Rebecca WestWere it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.
Rebecca West... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.
Rebecca West