What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
Miles FranklinI never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.
Miles FranklinAh, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
Miles Franklin