A Quote by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Quote Topics

Alone Am Artist Belong Enemy Fall Friend Kin Land Lover Mate Mother Myself Off Over Own Road Spirit Takes Teacher Violent Wife

Quote Author

Sylvia Ashton-Warner
New Zealander - Novelist
December 17, 1908 - April 28, 1984

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

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Warsan Shire

An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.

Orson Scott Card

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Sandeep Kumar

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Satish Kumar

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Whitney Houston

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Helen Slater

For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.