Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Dorothy West

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Dorothy West.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Dorothy West was an American storyteller and short story writer during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her 1948 novel The Living Is Easy, as well as many other short stories and essays, about the life of an upper-class black family.

American - Writer | June 2, 1907 - August 16, 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dorothy West

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Dorothy West

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