Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin Quotes
34 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
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.
Miles Franklin
Source
Report...
I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because women does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' woman, an' that's the main thing.
Miles Franklin
Source
Report...
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.
Miles Franklin
Source
Report...
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.
Miles Franklin
Source
Report...
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.
Miles Franklin
Source
Report...
It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.
Miles Franklin
Source
Report...
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.
Miles Franklin
Source
Report...
There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.
Miles Franklin
Source
Report...
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.
Miles Franklin
1
2
Quote of the day
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
Miles Franklin
Creative Commons
Born:
October 14, 1879
Died:
September 19, 1954
(aged 74)
Bio:
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, self-published in 1901.
Most used words:
life
women
woman
men
people
born
child
time
career
culture
Miles Franklin on Wikipedia
Miles Franklin works on Gutenberg Project
Miles Franklin works on Wikisource
Suggest an edit or a new quote
Miles Franklin Quotes
Miles Franklin Short Quotes
Australian Feminist Quotes
Feminist Quotes
19th-century Feminist Quotes
19th-century Women
Women Feminists
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes