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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
Hunters
Forest
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Women
Without
Spinsterhood
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