People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat. - Rebecca West

It struck her that the difference between men and women is the rock on which civilization will split before it can reach any goal that could justify its expenditure of effort.

To him boredom was a tragedy, for he had no more realization than if he had been an animal that any state he was in would ever come to an end.

But we knew that when one goes into a shop and buys a cake one gets nothing but a cake, which may be very good, but is only a cake; whereas if one goes into the kitchen and makes a cake because some people one respects and probably likes are coming to eat at one’s table, one is striking a low note on a scale that is struck higher up by Beethoven and Mozart.