“The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.”

— Winifred Holtby · Action quote

“The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.”

— WINIFRED HOLTBY

English novelist and journalist · 1898 – 1935

Winifred Holtby was an English novelist and journalist best known for South Riding, her posthumously published novel of local government in Yorkshire, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A feminist and social reformer, she was a close friend of Vera Brittain.

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