It was the same when they sat in his office, a stupendous apartment designed in that modernist style which represents the last attempt of bad taste t… - Rebecca West

Present-day women's lib … is repudiation of the obligation to follow a certain pattern if you are a woman. It is much more fundamental than suffragism. And, on the whole, I am with it.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

It was one of those autumn mornings which are devoid of melancholy, when the weather seems to be cleaning its house. A broom of wind sent the clouds above flying briskly and kept the fallen leaves scudding along the pavements, the trees looked as if they were being stripped to let the rains get at them better.