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All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Miles Franklin

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Miles Franklin
Age: 74 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 14
Died: 1954
Died: September 19
Feminist
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Writer
Talbingo
New South Wales
Australia
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin
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Mainspring
Idiots
Egotism
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Whose
Perhaps
Dead

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Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.
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Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.
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Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
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It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.
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Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.
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To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.
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I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.
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Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.
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Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?
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I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.
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