Sylvia AshtonWarner Quotes

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.

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

You must betrue to yourself.Strong enough to betrue to yourself.Brave enough to bestrong enough to betrue to yourself.Wise enough to bebrave enough to bestrong enough toshape yourself from whatyou actually are.

God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house.

The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody.

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.