Birthday Quote of the Day - December 21 - Rebecca West

Rebecca West

Rebecca West was a British author born today (December 21) in 1892.

It would seem...that man has been shocked by the war into forgetting how to be a political animal. This suspicion is confirmed by the spread of Fascism, which is a headlong flight into fantasy from the necessity for political thought.
Rebecca West

Photographer Madame Yévonde (Yevonde Middleton) deceased. Bernard Schweizer (Department of English, Long Island University) paid the estate executor (Lawrence Hole) for a GFDL license.