Rebecca West Quotes About Husband

Quotes about: Husband

• 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

• 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

• Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

  Rebecca West

  Husband, World, Andrew

  "Rebecca West, The Art of Fiction No. 65". Interview with Marina Warner, www.theparisreview.org. 1981.

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