Sylvia Fraser
Sylvia Fraser
Sylvia Fraseris a Canadian novelist, journalist and travel writer. Fraser was educated at the University of Western Ontario. In her long year career as a journalist, she has written hundreds of articles, beginning as a feature writer for the Toronto Star Weekly, and continuing with articles for many other magazines and newspapers including The Globe and Mail, Saturday Night, Chatelaine, The Walrus and Toronto Life. She taught creative writing for many years at Banff Centre and at various university workshops...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 March 1935
CountryCanada
Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.
My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.
It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.
To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.
I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.
As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.