There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some. Christina Stead More Quotes by Christina Stead More Quotes From Christina Stead It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything. Christina Stead making-money easy hands The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever. Christina Stead rocks clouds art There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't want to burn my insides out and live to tell the tale as well: idiots! It's simple, I'd drown myself... Why be in misery at the last? Christina Stead simple art thinking 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. Christina Stead believe children art Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double. Christina Stead women want art Philosophy is by the timid for the timid. Christina Stead philosophical philosophy Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Christina Stead rags tag life A woman is a hunter without a forest. Christina Stead hunters women forests The white man in the tropics degenerates every day. Christina Stead white-man colonialism men Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life. Christina Stead obscenity likes real If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers. Christina Stead would-be law reason It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on. Christina Stead boots hypocrisy men I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'! Christina Stead hypocrisy rights men Old age and youth cannot live together. Christina Stead youth age together A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future. Christina Stead conservatism future youth The great white city of brotherhood, Washington. Christina Stead cities racism white All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor. Christina Stead three class men A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. Christina Stead growing-up mother children Old age is perhaps life's decision about us. Christina Stead old-age decision age She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on. Christina Stead dream love art
