Freya Stark Quotes


Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.


Citations

Stark, Freya. Perseus in the Wind. John Murray, 1948.

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Freya Stark
Freya Stark
  • Born: January 31, 1893
  • Died: May 9, 1993
  • Nationality: British, Italian
  • Profession: Explorer, Travel Writer

Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE, was an Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert.