Quotes
Authors
Laurie Foos
"I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherhood makes people uneasy. The ambivalent mother is certainly much more interesting." --
Source : Source: therumpus.net
Laurie Foos
#Mother Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.”
“Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.”
“Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.”
Source : Source: glittermagrocks.com
“Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you - in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be.”
Source : Anne Ortlund (2001). “My Sacrifice His Fire: Weekday Readings for Women”, p.25, iUniverse
“It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.”
“And I'm still alive. That's what I have to focus on. Because I want to live. Even now I can't let myself give up. And that's something I didn't know about myself before - that I have such dogged determination and strength. That I can be completely focused on a goal and work long past what I thought my endurance was, when I have to.”
“I truly love Australia; I miss Aussie kids and their attitude!”
“I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.”
