43 ordspråk av Rebecca West
Rebecca West
Rebecca West föddes den December 21st 1892 och dog den 15 March 1983
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 I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. |
| I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? |
| I write books to find out about things. |
| If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time." |
| If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time." |
| In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility. |
| It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one's disaster |
| It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk |
| It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. |
| Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. |
| Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space |
| Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. |
| Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. |
| Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility. |
| Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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