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
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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
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At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.
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Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
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People who keep journals have life twice
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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?
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We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
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