24 Quotes by Josephine Winslow Johnson

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description...

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It’s like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness...

The writer’s advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double – sometimes a triple – living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.

She knew that nothing was ever as overwhelming or final as he seemed to think – that if he would wait, instead of shouting, there’d be less to shout over in the end.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.