You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough, to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

Her life story was adapted for the 1985 biographical film Sylvia based on her work and writings and Sylvia Ashton-Warner was honoured at the University of Auckland—the institution at which Sylvia Ashton-Warner trained between 1928 and 1929—where the Faculty of Education library was named the Sylvia Ashton-Warner Library in 1987. Ashton-Warner died on 28 April 1984 in Tauranga. Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner (17 December 1908 – 28 April 1984) New Zealand writer poet and educator was born on 17 December 1908 in Stratford New Zealand.