Rebecca West Quotes about Children

All Rebecca West Quotes Age Art Children quotes Criticism Desire Divorce Duty Earth Feelings Funny Giving Grace Hate Hatred History Home Humanity Husband Justice Literature Lying Music Pain Peace Quality Running Soul Survival Universe Waiting War Writing

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

Rebecca West

Children, Husband, Men

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

Rebecca West

Children, Adults, Possibility

Rebecca West (2010). “The Fountain Overflows”, p.288, Open Road Media

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

Rebecca West

Children, Divorce, Men

Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press