4 Quotes & Sayings By Ruth Dugdall

Ruth Dugdall was born in England in 1878. She trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and joined the Old Vic Company at the age of 26. She worked for years in theatre, but her career was hampered by chronic ill health. During this time she wrote plays and made a number of silent films, including the famous "Hands Across the Sea" (1926). Dugdall's interest in spiritual matters led her to take up Christian Science, which she embraced in 1926 Read more

Her conversion marked an important turning point in her career, which went into decline after she began writing books. She published just three novels during her lifetime. After an early period of prominence, she faded from public view until one day in 1987, when "The Miracle of Ruth Dugdall" was published. Dugdall died on 8 October 1991, in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, aged 98.

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...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable. Ruth Dugdall
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We’re programmed to imagine bad things happening to us, as opposed to good things, even if the good are more likely. It’s kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door. Ruth Dugdall
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..human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by films, by our own personalities and experiences. So, despite the unlikely odds, we still worry about being raped or murdered. We hear a sound in the night and think of burglars, not mice.. It's kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door. Ruth Dugdall