Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them -- before they can go forward.
Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
-- Paule Marshall, (Apr 9 1929-2019), US writer, educator; She wrote The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, 1961 and Daughters, 1991.