“You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?” IfsThinkingWorldShouldMatterHappinessJoyDrawsPainfulGoldenWhat MattersArrivalsTransitoryGolden Days Author:Winifred Holtby
“I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.” PeopleShouldMindBodySeemsIllIllnessSicknessLeapSaddlesChangelings Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend
“the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.” IfsShouldWritingBookStrongSeaTearsWeakCalvesStrong MindStrong Minded Author:Winifred Holtby
