South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

- Catherine Helen Spence

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

- Catherine Helen Spence

I look back to a happy childhood.

- Catherine Helen Spence

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen …

- Catherine Helen Spence

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

- Catherine Helen Spence

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of ma…

- Catherine Helen Spence

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

- Catherine Helen Spence

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

- Catherine Helen Spence

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a pe…

- Catherine Helen Spence