Dorothy West Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

He had been taught that bread unshared is bread unblessed when someone else is hungry, whether man or beast, friend or stranger. — Dorothy West

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. — Dorothy West

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

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. — Dorothy West

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

There is no life that does not contribute to history. — Dorothy West

I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean. — Dorothy West

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. — Dorothy West

How many people cdan play a piano? . . . Practically anybody who has ever been a child. It is a standard parlor accomplishment. — Dorothy West

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. — Dorothy West