Rebecca West

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.