Rebecca West

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

I...have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

There 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.

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

- Rebecca West