Old age is perhaps life's decision about us. Christina Stead More Quotes by Christina Stead More Quotes From Christina Stead Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie. Christina Stead slave women lying 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. Christina Stead love men art There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some. Christina Stead feminism theory mind Loneliness is a terrible blindness. Christina Stead women loneliness art All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes. Christina Stead shifting money class The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future. Christina Stead knowing religious son 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 errors strength art 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 pain winter art And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog! Christina Stead money dog hands 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 Men never believe a woman can do anything. Christina Stead sexism men believe Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe. Christina Stead drinking tea europe Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history. Christina Stead primitive-man dawn men Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way. Christina Stead outsiders gentleman way 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. Christina Stead wizards tricks finance A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip. Christina Stead political race lying A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist. Christina Stead real liars success People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance. Christina Stead scandal finance people Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining. Christina Stead golden black clouds Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift. Christina Stead uplifting character order
