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Flora Rheta Schreiber

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born

April 14, 1918

died

November 03, 1988

gender

female

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Biographies & Memoirs

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Flora Rheta Schreiber (April 24, 1918 - November 3, 1988), an American journalist, was the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil, the story of a woman (identified years later as Shirley Ardell Mason) who suffered from Dissociative Identity Disorder.

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Books by Flora Rheta Schreiber

Average rating: 3.90 · 19,915 ratings · 690 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Sybil: The True & Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities 3.90 avg rating — 20,010 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Shoemaker 3.68 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Your Child's Speech 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1973	My rating:

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Quotes by Flora Rheta Schreiber

“You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The True & Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities

tags: inspirational , motivational

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“Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The True & Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities

tags: mental-illness

19 people liked it

“i have no point in procrastinating any longer..”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber

tags: laziness , life

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