Miles Franklin Quote

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.


My Brilliant Career (1901)


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...

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...

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...

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...