If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.
Rebecca WestI always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.
Rebecca WestThere 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.
Rebecca WestOlive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her.
Rebecca West