“Brainwashing, thought Mrs. Pollifax contemptuously, and suddenly realized that she was not afraid. She had endured other crises without losing her dignity – births, widowhood, illnesses – and she was experienced enough to know now that everything worthwhile took time and loneliness, perhaps even one’s death as well.”

“Brainwashing, thought Mrs. Pollifax contemptuously, and suddenly realized that she was not afraid. She had endured other crises without losing her dignity – births, widowhood, illnesses – and she was experienced enough to know now that everything worthwhile took time and loneliness, perhaps even one’s death as well.”

— Dorothy Gilman