Christina Stead Quotes - Page 4

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• A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

  Christina Stead

  Future, Youth, Conservatism

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.326, Open Road Media

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• I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

  Christina Stead

  Men, Rights, Hypocrisy

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.279, Head of Zeus

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• Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Pain, Winter

  "The Man Who Loved Children".

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• 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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• It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

  Christina Stead

  Aunt

  Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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• Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

  Christina Stead

  Strength, Art, Errors

  Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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