Dorothy West Quotes

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

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.

I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

I never knew a man who got so hurt in his pocketbook.

She would grace his home with her charm and beauty and she would make his bed joyous, all without ever having to shame his hearth with another man's memory of her shamelessness.