Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotes
There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
What can be heavier in wealth than freedom?
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
Spinster.
Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.
It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt.
God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me.