Dorothy West Quotes

• There is no life that does not contribute to history.

  Dorothy West

  History, Doe, Women In History

  Dorothy West (1996). “The Living Is Easy”, p.114, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.

  Dorothy West

  Black, Know How, Knows

  Dorothy West (2010). “The Richer, the Poorer”, p.77, Anchor

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• Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

  Dorothy West

  Self, Identity, Resistance

  Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.82, Anchor

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• Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

  Dorothy West

  Skins, Ugly, Bones

  Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor

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• If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.

  Dorothy West

  Best Is Yet To Come, Ifs

  Dorothy West (2010). “The Richer, the Poorer”, p.280, Anchor

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• Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.

  Dorothy West

  Fighting, Desire, Quality

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• I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

  Dorothy West

  Clean, Cooks

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• It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.

  Dorothy West

  Lying, People, Giving

  Dorothy West (1996). “The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences”, Anchor

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• Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now to be the boundary of my existence, told to surrender my clothes, handed that comic invention, the hospital gown, and sent to bed in broad daylight like a child being stripped of her privileges.

  Dorothy West

  Children, Clothes, Bed

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• I never knew a man who got so hurt in his pocketbook.

  Dorothy West

  Money, Hurt, Men

  Dorothy West (1996). “The Living Is Easy”, p.7, Feminist Press at CUNY

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