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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
Sexism
Woman
Anything
Believe
Never
Men
Misogyny

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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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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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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
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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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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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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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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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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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 wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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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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