Quotes by Flora Rheta Schreiber

About Flora Rheta Schreiber:

Flora Rheta Schreiber was the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil, the story of a woman (identified years later as Shirley Ardell Mason) who had a dissociative identity disorder and allegedly had 16 different personalities. As Mason had insisted on protection of her privacy, Schreiber gave her the cover identity of Sybil Isabel Dorsett.
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Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up

Flora Rheta Schreiber

She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

It all made sense — terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly ...

Flora Rheta Schreiber

The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

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Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past?

Flora Rheta Schreiber

Author Bio

  • NameFlora Rheta Schreiber
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornApril 24, 1918
  • DiedNovember 3, 1988
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Author