Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotations

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ...

I never forgive attacks on my work.

Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.

When I teach people, I marry them.

Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.

How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.