Rebecca West
Rebecca West
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield DBE, known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder, her coverage of the...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth21 December 1892
CountryIreland
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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?
I 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.
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.
I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.
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.
it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.
My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.
There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.
The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.
If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.
To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.
Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.
To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.