"Dorothy Edith Gilman" was an American writer. She is best known for the Emily Pollifax/Mrs. Pollifax series. Emily Pollifax, her heroine, became a spy in her 60s and is very likely the only spy in literature to belong simultaneously to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the local garden club.

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She felt again that small shiver that occurred to her when events hinted at a destiny being played out, of unseen forces intervening.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

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.