Christina Stead Quotes
money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.
There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.
The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.
It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.
To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.