it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
Phyllis BottomeIf a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.
Phyllis BottomeWhen we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
Phyllis BottomeI wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
Phyllis Bottomeall daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.
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