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A woman is a hunter without a forest.

Christina Stead

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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
Novelist
Politician
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Rockdale City
Without
Spinsterhood
Hunter
Hunters
Forest
Forests
Woman
Women

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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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