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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
Misogyny
Sexism
Woman
Anything
Believe
Never
Men

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The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.
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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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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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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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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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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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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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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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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