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> [If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act… Only too easily they feel incompetent. If they must look up everything in a book, they are always too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/if-mothers-are-told-to-do-this-or-that-or-the-other-they-lose-touch/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

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## More by Donald Woods Winnicott

> [It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/it-s-only-too-easy-to-idealise-a-mother-s-job-we-know-well-that-every/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/tell-me-what-you-fear-and-i-will-tell-you-what-has-happened-to-you/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/play-like-dreams-serves-the-function-of-self-realization/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/it-is-in-playing-and-only-in-playing-that-the-individual-child-or/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [“The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/the-most-aggressive-and-therefore-the-most-dangerous-words-in-the/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/the-mother-gazes-at-the-baby-in-her-arms-and-the-baby-gazes-at-his/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [There is for many a poverty of play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/there-is-for-many-a-poverty-of-play/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/however-it-can-t-be-helped-mothers-if-they-do-their-job-properly-are/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/creativity-consists-in-maintaining-a-key-aspect-of-the-experience-of/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act… Only too easily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/if-mothers-are-told-to-do-this-or-that-or-the-other-they-lose-touch/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [It's a poor thing to be sane!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/it-s-a-poor-thing-to-be-sane/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/the-capacity-to-still-feel-wonder-is-essential-to-the-creative-process/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/it-is-in-playing-and-perhaps-only-in-playing-that-the-child-is-free/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/feeling-real-is-more-than-existing-it-is-finding-a-way-to-exist-as/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

> [Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/artists-are-people-driven-by-the-tension-between-the-desire-to/)

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