Dorothy West Quotes

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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.

    Lying   People   Giving  
    Dorothy West (1996). “The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences”, Anchor
  • Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

    Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.82, Anchor
  • There is no life that does not contribute to history.

    Dorothy West (1996). “The Living Is Easy”, p.114, Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

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

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

    Dorothy West (2010). “The Richer, the Poorer”, p.280, Anchor
  • I never knew a man who got so hurt in his pocketbook.

    Money   Hurt   Men  
    Dorothy West (1996). “The Living Is Easy”, p.7, Feminist Press at CUNY
  • I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

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

    Black   Know How   Knows  
    Dorothy West (2010). “The Richer, the Poorer”, p.77, Anchor
  • 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.

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