Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Also known as Gladys Bertha Stern, G. B. Stern, G(ladys) B(ronwyn) Stern
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- “She was the perfect cliché among dear little old ladies, down to the very lavender bags she placed among her linen.”
- “By the time one has decided on all the things that most certainly will have to be avoided in writing autobiography, nothing is left but blank pages or a masterpiece.”
- “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
- “Man is a complex being who makes deserts bloom and lakes die.”
- “One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.”
- “Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”
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1890 births1973 deaths20th-century British short story writers20th-century English dramatists and playwrights20th-century English Jews20th-century English memoirists20th-century English novelists20th-century English women novelists20th-century Roman CatholicsBritish women biographersBritish women literary criticsBritish women memoirists