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
art culture use
It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it ...
art people idiot
All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.
real love-is play
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.
men two earthquakes
I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.
people age would-be
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 ...