Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner MBEwas a New Zealand writer, poet and educator...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth17 December 1908
Sylvia Ashton-Warner quotes about
children cat parenting
I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.
children night yesterday
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
children two vision
Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.
children affair truth-is
The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.
suffering steps goodbye-love
When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.
I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.
listening attention wells
To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.
creativity self transcendence
Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ...
forgiving criticism never-forgive
I never forgive attacks on my work.
love people demand
Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.
people marry-me teach
When I teach people, I marry them.
powerful inspiration desire
Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.
desire desire-to-live
What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.
self order camouflage
How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.