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> [“Hair under the arms, for example, he said, should never be removed, for nature had put it there, and evidently it had some use. She had suddenly said, “You have too many children, Mr. Pollit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/hair-under-the-arms-for-example-he-said-should-never-be-removed-for/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

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> [“she said, her children should not live on trash, her children had to fight for their livings, having such a silly, puffed-up ignoramus of a father, her girls were not going to be underfed “mud rats.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/she-said-her-children-should-not-live-on-trash-her-children-had-to/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

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## More by Christina Stead

> [Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/charm-is-a-cunning-self-forgetfulness/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [“It is splendid—to be—loved! If we only—can—live up—to the thoughts—of us—by them—that love us!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/it-is-splendid-to-be-loved-if-we-only-can-live-up-to-the-thoughts-of/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [“I’m afraid to write to your father: he criticizes my spelling,” sneered Henny. “And it appears I know nothing about geography. Hang his stuck-up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/i-m-afraid-to-write-to-your-father-he-criticizes-my-spelling-sneered/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [“you do not know what she did not only to me but to the little children. She has tortured them, turned them against me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/you-do-not-know-what-she-did-not-only-to-me-but-to-the-little/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/to-me-all-the-juice-of-a-book-is-in-an-unpublished-manuscript-and-the/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [“Hair under the arms, for example, he said, should never be removed, for nature had put it there, and evidently it had some use.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/hair-under-the-arms-for-example-he-said-should-never-be-removed-for/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/about-myself-no-i-m-unimportant-an-observer-a-wandering-animal/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [“A month before our marriage, I knew it would be a well-nigh hopeless union, yet so great is a young man’s idea of what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/a-month-before-our-marriage-i-knew-it-would-be-a-well-nigh-hopeless/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [“For a moment, after years of scamping, she felt the dread power of wifehood; they were locked in each other’s grasp till the end—the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/for-a-moment-after-years-of-scamping-she-felt-the-dread-power-of/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/socialist-writers-are-made-of-sterner-stuff-than-those-who-only-let/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [“Don’t call humans rats—rats are superior.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/don-t-call-humans-rats-rats-are-superior/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [“Whatever men say, women know;”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/whatever-men-say-women-know/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [“she is never more herself than when she destroys herself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/she-is-never-more-herself-than-when-she-destroys-herself/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [Each Australian is a Ulysses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/each-australian-is-a-ulysses/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

> [A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/a-dominant-race-did-not-lie-because-it-had-the-whip/)

[Christina Stead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-stead/)

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