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? — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
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… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it;… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
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… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
... 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. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself.… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
