74 Quotes by Jessamyn West

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

A good time for laughing is when you can.