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Famous Christina Stead Quotes
“It is most oppressive to be an aunt.”
Source: A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973
“I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.”
Source: For Love Alone
“Venus can see at night without eyes.”
Source: For Love Alone
“Strange is the influence of Marx on character.”
Source: Christina Stead, Selected Fiction and Nonfiction
“Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.”
Source: Letty Fox: Her Luck
Source: For Love Alone
“Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.”
Source: For Love Alone
“I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.”
Source: Letty Fox: Her Luck
“Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.”
Source: For Love Alone
“A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.”
Source: House of All Nations
Source: For Love Alone
“Loneliness is a terrible blindness.”
Source: Dark Places of the Heart
Source: Dark Places of the Heart
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
Source: The Man Who Loved Children
Source: A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973
“Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.”
Source: House of All Nations
“About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.”
Source: House of All Nations
Source: Christina Stead, Selected Fiction and Nonfiction