We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
Christina SteadThe City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.
Christina SteadWomen are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.
Christina Stead