The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.
Rebecca WestInternational relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
Rebecca WestMarriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.
Rebecca West