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If you are going to do something that will annoy people, tell them about it afterwards; then they will only be annoyed that you have done it, and won't have all the exasperation of trying to stop you.

Dorothy Cottrell

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery...

Dorothy Cottrell

I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about them. I had, for instance, early discovered that, if you gave a baby a finger to hold, it held it. This was perhaps interesting, but it wanted greatly in the dear element of surprise.

Dorothy Cottrell

Dorothy Cottrell

Dorothy Cottrell

Born: 1902

Died: 1957 (aged 55)

Bio: Ida Dorothy Ottley Cottrell, better known as Dorothy Cottrell, was an Australian writer. Born in Picton, she contracted infantile paralysis as a child and spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair.

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