Rebecca West Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

  Rebecca West

  Father, Years, Waiting

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.36, Open Road Media

• The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

  Rebecca West

  Bullying, Father, Bully

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.30, Open Road Media

• I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

  Rebecca West

  Father, Glorious

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Fountain Overflows”, p.198, Open Road Media

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