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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
Never
Men
Misogyny
Sexism
Woman
Anything
Believe

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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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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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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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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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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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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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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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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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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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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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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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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