Fawn M. Brodie Quotes


Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.


Citations

Brodie, Fawn M. Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 1977. Quoted in Reader's Digest, vol. 114, The Reader's Digest Association, 1979, p. 141.

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  • Born: September 15, 1915
  • Died: January 10, 1981
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Biographer History Professor

Fawn McKay Brodie was an American biographer and one of the first female professors of history at UCLA, who is best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974), a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History (1945), an early biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.