A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.
Christina SteadThe waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
Christina SteadYe want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
Christina SteadThe sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggleโฆ Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.
Christina Stead