Quotes from Dorothy West

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

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

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