She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
Phyllis BottomeNeither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
Phyllis BottomeTaboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!
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