About Dorothy Gilman: Dorothy Edith Gilman is best known for the Mrs. Pollifax series. Emily Pollifax, her heroine, became a spy in her 60s.
I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is how a person meets them, how they survive them. Given the inevitability of losses and disappointments i...
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
The best things arrive on time.
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
