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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.

Christina Stead

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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
Novelist
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Rockdale City
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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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The great white city of brotherhood, 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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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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Intuition is not infallible it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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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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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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