Character Quote by Christina Stead

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

— Christina Stead

“It is splendid—to be—loved! If we only—can—live up—to the thoughts—of us—by them—that love us!”

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just…

— 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.…

— Christina Stead

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

— 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…

— 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…

— Christina Stead

“Don’t call humans rats—rats are superior.”

— Christina Stead

“Whatever men say, women know;”

— Christina Stead

“she is never more herself than when she destroys herself.”

— Christina Stead