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
children clever careers
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.
bullying mean men
Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.
mother thinking wind
My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.
children civilization office
Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.
It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.
design wish would-be
I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.
cheer men grandpa
Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.
nature growing-up animal
To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.
law invisible indirect
there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.
thinking two parent
There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.
women class drawing
Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman.
mother age problem
... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.
girl clever husband
Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.
fire may sparks
Heed the spark or you may dread the fire ...