Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children (1940)

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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

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Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.

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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

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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.

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All your fine officials debauch the young girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

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Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.

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It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

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Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.

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I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.

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