Jessamyn West
Jessamyn West
Mary Jessamyn Westwas an American author of short stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion. A Quaker from Indiana, she graduated from Fullerton Union High School in 1919 and Whittier College in 1923. There she helped found the Palmer Society in 1921...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 July 1902
CityVernon, IN
CountryUnited States of America
challenges rattlesnakes teach
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
lost-love humor heart
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
success men soul
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?
education teaching learning
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
hurt honesty trying
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
farewell grieving long
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.
sleep insomnia desert
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
writing punishment earth
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.
responsibility want emotion
The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.
eye listening matter
To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
book feelings treasure
Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.
feels
It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.
rogues saint honest
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
water people wells
Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.