Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.

The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldn't the care of babies and children be thought of that way too?

There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.