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
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 ...
men long way
Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?
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If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.
heart two treasure
Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.
people sometimes hated
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
relationship fundamentals needs
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
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.
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.