Christina Stead Quotes

Am I to spend the next twenty years in the high-minded company of a smug Philistine who doesn’t so much as make me a decent husband?

Christina Stead

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• Am I to spend the next twenty years in the high-minded company of a smug Philistine who doesn’t so much as make me a decent husband?

  

  Christina Stead
  • Years
  • Company
  • Spend