“When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having.”
― The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence
― The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence
“To me, real love, the move from power to love, involves immense suffering. Any creative work comes from that level, where we share our sufferings, just the sheer suffering of being human. And that's where the real love is.”
― Conscious Femininity: Interviews With Marion Woodman
― Conscious Femininity: Interviews With Marion Woodman
“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“There is no growth without real feeling. Children not loved for who they are do not learn how to love themselves. Their growth is an exercise in pleasing others, not in expanding through experience. As adults, they must learn to nurture their own lost child.”
― Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul
― Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul
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