Christine Downing Quotes

• We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

  Christine Downing

  Needs, Might, Who We Are

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• Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

  Christine Downing

  Knowledge, Water, Reeds

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• There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.

  Christine Downing

  Disappointment, Sisterhood, Differences

  Christine Downing (1988). “Psyche's Sisters: Re-Imagining the Meaning of Sisterhood”, Burns & Oates

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• As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.

  Christine Downing

  Dream, Ideas, Language

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