Rebecca West Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

  Rebecca West

  Passion, Destiny, Soul

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

• Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

  Rebecca West

  Mom, Mother, Humanity

• 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.

  Rebecca West

  Littles, Should, Duty

• One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon to give thanks with proper abjection; one performed public duties, for which one was paid in full by deference; one was chaste, refusing to run away from one's husband with other men who for the most part did not ask one to do so, and who in any case had nothing better to offer than one's own home. Knowing no difficulties one was without fortitude; knowing no criteria but one's own achievements one was without taste.

  Rebecca West

  Running, Husband, Home

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.149, Open Road Media

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