Smart, smart woman....

I just now learned about this woman, Barbara Ueland



Brenda Ueland tried running up a mountain in her eighties, walked nine miles a day and wrote five or six million words of journalistic columns in her lifetime - including the classic 'If You Want to Write' which has sold some 140,000 copies as a paperback (published by Graywold Press in the States). She believed in being herself:



All children have creative power.
Brenda Ueland

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.
Brenda Ueland

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
Brenda Ueland

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
Brenda Ueland

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
Brenda Ueland

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
Brenda Ueland

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
Brenda Ueland

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
Brenda Ueland