There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone. — 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
It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative. — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide. — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
