Rebecca West Quotes About Personality

Quotes about: Personality

• The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

  Rebecca West

  Morning, Food, Mean

• Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Egypt, Pyramids

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

• Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

  Rebecca West

  Real, Drama, Home

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

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