Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.
I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory. - Christina Stead
I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.
- Christina Stead
Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination. - Christina Stead
Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
A woman is a hunter without a forest. - Christina Stead
A woman is a hunter without a forest.
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness. - Christina Stead
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare. - Christina Stead
Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic - Christina Stead
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not d… - Christina Stead
The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not d…
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around. - Christina Stead
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class. - Christina Stead
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.
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