March 9, 2014 by blue milk
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are–chaff and grain together–certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
– George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans)
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This quote is so wonderful!
I would like to tattoo this on my forehead as careful, precious guidance to those I meet.
Beautiful quote. I love it. Thank you for sharing!
Sorry to be a pedant but isn’t that quote from Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (from A Life for a Life)
(love the quote though!)
GoodReads has it as a quote from both authors (yay the internet) but this website says it is widely misattributed to George Eliot. http://www.geonius.com/eliot/quotes.html
They were contemporaries so it is not surprising that the work of two women has been conflated into one /whinge.
http://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/breastfeeding-mom-3112014-labeled-a-tramp-for-nursing-in-public/
Did you see this?