{"author":"Rebecca West","author_id":"Rebecca+West","total_quotes":36,"quotes":[{"text":"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.","author":"Rebecca West","tags":["motherhood","horse","like "],"id":65811,"author_id":"Rebecca+West"},{"text":"[On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If she criticized the institutions of earth, it was because she had very definite ideas regarding the institutions of heaven.","author":"Rebecca West","tags":["feminism","jane-austen","marriage","northanger-abbey","the-feminism-of-jane-austen"],"id":70312,"author_id":"Rebecca+West"},{"text":"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.","author":"Rebecca West","tags":["writing","mind","person "],"id":70408,"author_id":"Rebecca+West"},{"text":"She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.","author":"Rebecca West","tags":["children"],"id":108684,"author_id":"Rebecca+West"},{"text":"I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.","author":"Rebecca West","tags":["history","yugoslavia"],"id":110226,"author_id":"Rebecca+West"},{"text":"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water and wine taste warm in the mouth, and food is of the substance of the sand; one snarls at one's company; thoughts prick one through sleep like mosquitoes.","author":"Rebecca West","tags":["grief","sadness"],"id":117551,"author_id":"Rebecca+West"},{"text":"Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted. If one’s own existence has no form, if its events do not come handily to mind and disclose their significance, we feel about ourselves as if we were reading a bad book.","author":"Rebecca West","tags":["art","life","worth"],"id":117721,"author_id":"Rebecca+West"},{"text":"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.","author":"Rebecca West","tags":["clichés","empowerment","feminism","opinions","women","womens-liberation"],"id":164505,"author_id":"Rebecca+West"},{"text":"[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.","author":"Rebecca West","tags":["hurt","injury","salt","vulnerability","wounds"],"id":166726,"author_id":"Rebecca+West"},{"text":"You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.","author":"Rebecca West","tags":["extraordinary","life","music"],"id":182548,"author_id":"Rebecca+West"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}