I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy. — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
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… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you. — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
“The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.” — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
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… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
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… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
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… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act.... Only too easily… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process. — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
