Christina Stead (17 July 1902 – 31 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. She was born in Rockdale, New South Wales, and died in Sydney.
Famous quotes by christina stead:
“I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like constitutional rights and progress!”
—Christina Stead (19021983)
“It is a fruitful island of the sea-world, a great Ithaca, there parched and stony and here trodden by flocks and curly- headed bulls and heavy with thick-set grain.”
—Christina Stead (19021983)
“If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldnt be enough to go round.”
—Christina Stead (19021983)