950 – “I myself have never been able to find out 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.”

-Rebecca West

Quote Number: 556

Source: “Mr. Chesterton in Hysterics.” In The Clarion. November 14, 1913. Republished in The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17. Jane Marcus, editor. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, Indiana. 1982. Pg 219.

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