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

- 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 on…

- Dorothy West

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

- Dorothy West

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Dorothy West

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

- 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 existenc…

- Dorothy West

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Dorothy West