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Historical Famous Quotes is a great reference and resource of quotes from films, shows, movies, history, famous people, leaders, stars and literature, including quotations on life, love, friendship, happy, sad, proverbs, sayings, popular and funny quotes, as well as short and long inspirational quotes. Great for entertainment, essays, and guidance in your own life.

 

Rebecca West

About Author: Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)

Quotes:

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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