Freya Stark Quotes

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.

Time is the sea in which men grow are born or die.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.