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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
Christina Stead
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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
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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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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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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
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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.
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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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I do not want to go to heaven I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.
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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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Intuition is not infallible it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
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No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.
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Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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