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Shirley Ann Briggs

  • “Let's dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else can.”

    • Shirley Ann Briggs,
    • in Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage to Be Yourself ()

  • “Our teachers come in surprising packages. They are not always loving persons in our life. Our greatest teacher may be the person who brings out the worst in us.”

    • Shirley Ann Briggs

Shirley Ann Briggs, U.S. writer

(1918 - 2004)