Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklinwas an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, self-published in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 October 1879
CountryAustralia
selfish views shoes
Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.
real love-is play
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.
men breathing silence
I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.
men two earthquakes
I 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.
wise years generations
It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.
fleeting hours
... we each have our fleeting hour.
art people idiot
All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.
people age would-be
Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable ...
change thinking long
Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.
bible people coward
Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does ...
autobiography
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
atheist heart atheism
Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
desire way condemnation
the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.
art culture use
It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it ...