Christina Stead Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• 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?

  Christina Stead

  Mother, Dream, Art

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.286, Head of Zeus

• A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

  Christina Stead

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.286, Head of Zeus

• Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

  Christina Stead

  Mother, Trying, Papa

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.498, The Miegunyah Press

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