Brenda Ueland
Author profile
born
October 24, 1891
in Minneapolis, The United States
died
March 05, 1985
gender
female
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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
— published 1983 — 21 editions |
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Me: A Memoir
by Brenda Ueland, Patricia Hampl — published 1939 — 3 editions |
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Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings
by Brenda Ueland, Susan Allen Toth — published 1993 |
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Tell Me More: On The Fine Art Of Listening
— published 1998 |
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O Clouds, Unfold: Clara Ueland and Her Family
— published 2003 |
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Si Quieres Escribir... = If You Want to Write
— published 2000 |
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Mitropoulos & the North High Band
— published 1984 |
“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ”
― Brenda Ueland
― Brenda Ueland
“In fact that is why the lives of most women are so vaguely unsatisfactory. They are always doing secondary and menial things (that do not require all their gifts and ability)for others and never antyhing for themselves. Society and husbands praise them for it (when they get too miserable or have nervous breakdowns) though always a little perplexedly and half-heartedly and just to be consoling. The poor wives are reminded that that is just why wives are so splendid--because they are so unselfish and self-sacrificing and that is the wonderful thing about them! But inwardly women know that something is wrong. They sense that if you are always doing something for others, like a servant or nurse, and never anything for yourself, you cannot do others any good. You make them physically more comfortable. But you cannot affect them spiritually in any way at all. For to teach, encourage, cheer up, console, amuse, stimulate or advise a husband or children or friends, you have to be something yourself. [...]"If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say; 'Mother is working on her fice-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.”
― Brenda Ueland
― Brenda Ueland
“I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”
― Brenda Ueland
― Brenda Ueland
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