My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind:… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of the trials… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
“When an emergency arose that necessiated Uncle Jay-Jay to shoe a horse himself, I always manipulated the bellows. He was always so exacting that… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
