Christina Stead Quotes
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You will never break up my home. I know that’s been your object for years and the aim of all your secret maneuvers. I love my children as no man ever loved his before. I know men love their children, but mine are bound up in me, part of me.
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When a woman hates, she will wreck a dozen lives to pay back what she conceives to be some injury.
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I saw my entire life a waste, a desert of shame and unspeakable sorrow, and behind me, a suicided wife!
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The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.
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She knows that soon she will have escaped into the world of the people better than us, the great objective world better than Shakespeare and Beethoven and Donatello put together—didn’t they all come out of it?
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She soon reached a point when she could not sit at the table with him and listen to his misbegotten notions and morality with its mistaken examples.
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I’m an old woman, your mother’s an old woman, so I’ll be an old woman, and I’ll do what I please.
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About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.
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Don’t call humans rats - rats are superior.
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Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows.” She chuckled, “The more fool you!
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The children hid themselves, with receptive ears, round corners.
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For all education is outside, not inside, the schoolroom.
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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on.
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Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...
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All men are dogs
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You see when a man knows he will be old, he is afraid: when he becomes old, he cares for nothing - love does not count, only comfort; honor does not count, only cheating for a niche.
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And the three women, after crying, felt united in a love.
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Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.
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Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us - or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
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Where, in all the self-righteous lying world, could she turn for a friend? She even thought angrily of her children - they were simply eating up her flesh as they had when they were at the breast, no less.
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If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
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Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.
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She said she hated my children - her own children, Looloo-dirl, her own children!