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Dame Rebecca West, DBE was the pseudonym of Cecily (or Cicily) Isabel Fairfield (December 21, 1892- March 15, 1983), a British-Irish feminist and writer famous for her novels and for her relationship with H. G. Wells. A prolific, protean author, she wrote essays and articles for The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Sunday Telegraph, and The New York Herald Tribune. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."

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"People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

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"He is every other inch a gentleman."

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"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."

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"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."

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"Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed."

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"She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul."

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

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

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"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."

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