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Also known as Phyllis Forbes Dennis

British writer (1884–1963)

Person · Open Library

Born
31 May 1884
Died
22 August 1963
Works
93

Top works

  • The dark tower
  • Private worlds
  • Man and beast
  • The messenger of the gods
  • A servant of reality

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1949-07-06
Active to
1995-06-30
discoquiet stormr&bsoul

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Quotes

  • There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
  • In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being’s life — subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual’s personality — no human being’s education can have a safe foundation.
  • There is no thermometer for wants!
  • Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.
  • Even not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
  • Physical inferiority is always stressed rather than relieved by a militaristic rule; so that it would not surprise me to find that the half of the human race that produces and trains the other half, will be once more degraded! One must not forget that many women will like it better. For one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled.

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date of birth
1882-05-31
date of death
1963-08-22
married name
Phyllis Forbes Dennis
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Phyllis Bottome
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