"Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to……" — Freya Stark
"Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness."
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Freya Stark
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53 Quotes by Freya Stark
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An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like…
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid…
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We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
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The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round…
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There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
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All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would…
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