3 Quotes & Sayings By Dorothy West

Dorothy West was born in 1891 in Gloucester, Virginia. Her father, George W. West, was a member of the Virginia General Assembly and served as Speaker of the House for many years. While attending Hampton Institute she met Dr Read more

Mary Jones, who became her lifelong friend and literary mentor. After graduation, she studied medicine at Howard University School of Medicine, graduating with honors in 1917. She then worked as a physician in Washington D.C.'s wards during World War I before returning to her native Virginia on the eve of the Great Depression to care for family and friends stricken by poverty and despair.

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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. Dorothy West
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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. Dorothy West