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There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds and, of course, until they have some.

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
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Rockdale City
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Women
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.
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We are primitive men we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
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Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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The Chinese are a knowing people and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.
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Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.
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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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I know your breed all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.
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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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