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Men never believe a woman can do anything.

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
Woman
Anything
Believe
Never
Men
Misogyny
Sexism

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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.
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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.
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money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.
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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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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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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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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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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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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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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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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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The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
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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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You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.
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