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# Christina Stead

(1902–1983)   Writer   Australia

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Christina Stead was a writer from Australia, best known for *The man who loved children*.

## Quick Facts About Christina Stead

Born July 17, 1902

Died March 31, 1983

Nationality Australia

Profession Writer

Notable works The man who loved children

Known for For Love Alone, I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist, Letty Fox: Her Luck, The Man Who Loved Children

Spouse William J. Blake

## About Christina Stead

She was a committed Marxist but never joined the Communist Party. Much of her adult life was lived abroad, though she returned to Australia shortly before she died.

## Awards & Honors

Patrick White Award

##  Quotes by Christina Stead · Page 4

> [“Men are always good to fools and perfect idiots,” cried Henny impatiently. “A man will run ten miles from a woman with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/men-are-always-good-to-fools-and-perfect-idiots-cried-henny/)

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[Fools](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fools/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/our-old-age-is-perhaps-life-s-decision-about-us-or-worse-the-decision/)

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[Age life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age-life/)

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> [“when she was sitting staring into space, communing with her disillusion, his heart would be wrung by their unloving beauty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/when-she-was-sitting-staring-into-space-communing-with-her/)

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[Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/)

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> [We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/we-are-primitive-men-we-taboo-what-we-desire-and-need-how-did-the/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/perhaps-i-have-made-a-mistake-but-heaven-knows-i-have-been-faithful/)

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[Failure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/failure/)

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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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/i-m-an-old-woman-your-mother-s-an-old-woman-so-i-ll-be-an-old-woman/)

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[Mother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mother/)

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> [Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/pukka-sahib-or-rank-outsider-gentleman-or-bounder-and-it-s-accent/)

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[Accents](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accents/)

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> [I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/i-don-t-know-what-imagination-is-if-not-an-unpruned-tangled-kind-of/)

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[Ifs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/you-will-never-break-up-my-home-i-know-that-s-been-your-object-for/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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

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[Parenting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/parenting/)

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

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[Happiness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/)

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> [“she would say to the children as they crowded about her bent shoulders, peering at her satin stitch or Madeira work, “my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/she-would-say-to-the-children-as-they-crowded-about-her-bent/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [“ men call it the tyranny of tears, it is an iron tyranny- no man could be so cruel, so devishlish,as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/men-call-it-the-tyranny-of-tears-it-is-an-iron-tyranny-no-man-could-2/)

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[Feminism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feminism/)

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> [“It has never worked—it never will. I don’t know what you want to hang on to me for. You should have let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/it-has-never-worked-it-never-will-i-don-t-know-what-you-want-to-hang/)

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[Another man](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/another-man/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/where-in-all-the-self-righteous-lying-world-could-she-turn-for-a/)

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[Friendship](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friendship/)

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> [“A breeze had arisen and trailed faintly through the house like a sick woman in a long dressing gown, and with it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/a-breeze-had-arisen-and-trailed-faintly-through-the-house-like-a-sick/)

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[Oatmeal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/oatmeal/)

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> [“Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/life-is-nothing-but-rags-and-tags-and-filthy-rags-at-that-why-was-i/)

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[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [“Her poverty was naked on the empty streets, and if no one walked abroad she felt all the more ghastly, like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/her-poverty-was-naked-on-the-empty-streets-and-if-no-one-walked/)

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[Empty streets](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/empty-streets/)

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> [If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/if-all-the-rich-people-in-the-world-divided-up-their-money-among/)

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[Enough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enough/)

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> [Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/women-are-outside-the-law-they-make-nothing-they-say-yes-or-no-to/)

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[Collections](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/collections/)

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> [A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/a-mother-what-are-we-worth-really-they-all-grow-up-whether-you-look/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/a-bank-is-a-confidence-trick-if-you-put-up-the-right-signs-the/)

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[Asks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asks/)

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> [“She said she hated my children—her own children, Looloo-dirl, her own children!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/she-said-she-hated-my-children-her-own-children-looloo-dirl-her-own/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/if-all-the-rich-men-in-the-world-divided-up-their-money-amongst/)

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[Money](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/money/)

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> [“I saw my entire life a waste, a desert of shame and unspeakable sorrow, and behind me, a suicided wife!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/i-saw-my-entire-life-a-waste-a-desert-of-shame-and-unspeakable-sorrow/)

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[Entire life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/entire-life/)

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> [Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/why-is-it-every-careerist-tries-to-turn-his-mother-into-a-madonna-to/)

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[Birth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/birth/)

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> [“Therefore,” he reasoned with himself, “it is love coming to claim me: I have been so long without love, hated at home,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/therefore-he-reasoned-with-himself-it-is-love-coming-to-claim-me-i/)

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[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/all-middle-class-novels-are-about-the-trials-of-three-all-upper-class/)

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[Bad man](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-man/)

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> [The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/the-waste-the-insane-freaks-of-these-money-men-the-cynicism-and/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable would go down with everything: do you think I get more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/anyone-would-think-a-thin-stick-like-me-weak-and-miserable-would-go/)

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[Ache](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ache/)

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> [You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/you-want-to-be-free-and-break-new-ground-speak-your-mind-fear-no-man/)

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[Acknowledge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acknowledge/)

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> [“They never asked any reasons for their parents’ fights, thinking all adults unreasonable, violent beings, the toys of their own monstrous tempers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/they-never-asked-any-reasons-for-their-parents-fights-thinking-all/)

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[Parenting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/parenting/)

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> [“ridiculous if not positively touched, filthy and mean-spirited to be so poor, vain to have airs and graces when so poor, superstitious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/ridiculous-if-not-positively-touched-filthy-and-mean-spirited-to-be/)

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[Faith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faith/)

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> [“I know,” he said with sudden bitterness, “because your mother’s game is working after all. She is turning you against me.” “No,”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/i-know-he-said-with-sudden-bitterness-because-your-mother-s-game-is/)

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[Parenting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/parenting/)

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> [“The light of the years to come, to me; and the law would give them into your charge because you are their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/the-light-of-the-years-to-come-to-me-and-the-law-would-give-them-into/)

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[Mother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mother/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/she-said-her-children-should-not-live-on-trash-her-children-had-to/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/when-people-are-collecting-gold-they-aren-t-doing-business-gold-is/)

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[Bankruptcy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bankruptcy/)

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> [The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/the-city-is-a-machine-miraculously-organised-for-extracting-gold-from/)

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[Air](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-stead/she-was-able-to-feel-active-creation-going-on-around-her-in-the-rocks/)

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[Able](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/able/)

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## Christina Stead by topic

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