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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/how-much-of-my-true-self-i-camouflage-and-choke-in-order-to-commend/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

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## More by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

> [Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/inspiration-is-the-richest-nation-i-know-the-most-powerful-on-earth/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/i-am-my-own-universe-i-my-own-professor/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/the-truth-is-that-i-am-enslaved-in-one-vast-love-affair-with-70/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/education-fundamentally-is-the-increase-of-the-percentage-of-the/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/i-flung-my-tongue-round-like-a-cat-o-nine-tails-so-that-my-pleasant/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/of-the-two-kinds-of-order-the-conscious-and-the-unconscious-order/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/when-love-turns-away-now-i-don-t-follow-it-i-sit-and-suffer/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/i-see-the-mind-of-the-five-year-old-as-a-volcano-with-two-vents/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/as-the-blackness-of-the-night-recedes-so-does-the-nadir-of-yesterday/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/what-can-be-heavier-than-wealth-than-freedom/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/you-must-be-true-to-yourself-strong-enough-to-be-true-to-yourself/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/children-have-two-visions-the-inner-and-the-outer-of-the-two-the/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/self-forgetfulness-in-creativity-can-lead-to-self-transcendence/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/it-is-not-so-much-the-content-of-what-one-says-as-the-way-in-which/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

> [To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-ashton-warner/to-feel-as-well-as-hear-what-someone-says-requires-whole-attention/)

[Sylvia Ashton-Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-ashton-warner/)

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