“I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.” ThinkingWellsEnoughMotherGirlBornCreativityLuckyPianoFairyLazyCall MeNutsGlitterDressed UpLouisianaPlantationsRebecca Author:Rebecca Wells
“In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.” AbleMotherCreativityStageCreatorProducersProductiveMagnitudeSkipGestationLoafing Book:Teacher in America Source: Teacher in America
“Stupid word, that. Period. In America it means 'full stop,' like in punctuation. That's stupid as well. A period isn't a full stop. It's a new beginning. I don't mean all that creativity, life-giving force, earth-mother stuff, I mean it's a new beginning to the month, relief that you're not pregnant, when you don't have to have a child.” GivingWellsMeanChildrenEarthAmericaMotherForceStuffCreativityStupidMonthsPeriodsReliefPregnantNew BeginningsPunctuation Author:Michelene Wandor
“My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.” ThinkingGivingChildrenDoeBookMotherCreativityGive MeSaved Author:David Lynch
“An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express myself in a very definite style but by means of all kinds of materials and formats. I wish to discover how my own creativity unfolds under different circumstances... Naples is a dilemma that fatally elicits an oneiric interpretation and I love it and feel grateful because it has nurtured my fantasy.” MenFeelsKindMeanDifferentSelfMotherWishMy OwnCreativityFantasyStyleMaterialsCircumstancesGratefulDeeperAll KindsCompanionInterpretationDefiniteDilemmaFormatNaples Author:Augusto De Luca
“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.” ThinkingMindChildrenBookMotherReadingCreativityEffectsStorytellingGranny Book:Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa Source: Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa