Christina Stead

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.

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    I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like ‘constitutional rights’ and ‘progress’!
    Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    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 (1902–1983)

    If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn’t be enough to go round.
    Christina Stead (1902–1983)