D.W. Winnicott

"It is a healthy condition for a mature woman to live her sex life with a man, whereas for her to be frigid is, as a rule, a misfortune."

"The mother's main task is to protect the infant from trauma."

"Playing is doing."

"Healthy individuals are creative."

"The capacity to be alone is a prerequisite for the capacity to love."

"It is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is worth living."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"Hate is not the opposite of love; indifference is."

"The good-enough mother adapts to the baby's needs."

"Psychotherapy is not making sick people healthy, but in making badly-sick people less ill."

"Growth happens in the spaces between what we know and what we don't know."

"The transitional object is the first not-me possession."

"Instinct is not the only thing in the baby; there is something called maturation."

"One cannot be immature and at the same time be creative."

"The therapist is asked to be present and not to act."

"Life itself starts as a dangerous adventure."

"The baby is not separate from the mother."

"Failure is as much a part of maturation as success."

"We are poor indeed if we are only sane."

"The antisocial tendency is not basically destructive."

"There is no such thing as a baby."

"Holding and handling are not merely physical procedures."

"The child uses objects before understanding them."

"Not compliance but genuine response is what makes relationship."

"Regression to dependence is a feature of many therapeutic techniques."

"The mother is not the environment."

"Trust is the foundation of all relationships."

"The individual who does not feel threatened by the environment is able to be creative."

"Death is the one appointment we must keep."

"Our children are not failures because we have not been perfect."