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Christina Stead

Christina Stead (17 July 1902 – 31 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. Christina Stead was a committed Marxist, although she was never a member of the Communist Party. She spent much of her life outside Australia.

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Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgi ...

Each Australian is a Ulysses.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Ca ...

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart ad ...

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret w ...

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

A woman is a hunter without a forest.

Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable would go down with everything: do you th ...

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptc ...

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show ...

She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery o ...

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dea ...