Phyllis Bottome — British Novelist born on May 31, 1884, died on August 22, 1963

Phyllis Forbes Dennis was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome... (wikipedia)

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
To be in the right is often an expensive business.
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.