Mary Garden Quotes

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• A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off,…
• In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots…
• I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed…
• Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view…
• It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must…
• Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates…
• I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
• I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
• My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
• For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
• If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something…
• In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I…
• My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
• My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
• Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

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