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# Joanna Field

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Marion Milner, sometimes known as Marion Blackett-Milner, was a British writer and psychoanalyst. Outside psychotherapeutic circles, she is better known by her pseudonym, Joanna Field, as a pioneer of introspective journaling.

##  Quotes by Joanna Field

> [Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-field/sometimes-i-found-that-in-my-happy-moments-i-could-not-believe-that-i/)

Joanna Field

[Happiness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de9/joanna-field-79706_happiness_sometimes-i-found-that-in-my-happy-momen_903912.jpg)

> [“I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-field/i-now-see-my-life-not-as-a-slow-shaping-of-achievment-to-fit-my/)

Joanna Field

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/joanna-field-79706_gradual_i-now-see-my-life-not-as-a-slow-shaping_2539139.jpg)

> [“I used to trouble about what life was for. Now being alive seems sufficent reason.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-field/i-used-to-trouble-about-what-life-was-for-now-being-alive-seems/)

Joanna Field

[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/joanna-field-79706_life_i-used-to-trouble-about-what-life-was-fo_3038145.jpg)

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