Top 27 Miles Franklin Quotes
#3. No problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.
Miles Franklin
#4. 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
#5. 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 ...
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#6. 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.
Miles Franklin
#7. 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.
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#9. 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.
Miles Franklin
#10. It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
Miles Franklin
#11. I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.
Miles Franklin
#12. 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.
Miles Franklin
#13. 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.
Miles Franklin
#14. What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
Miles Franklin
#15. 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.
Miles Franklin
#16. This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]
Miles Franklin
#17. Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
Miles Franklin
#18. The way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.
Miles Franklin
#19. 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
#20. I am afflicted with the power of thought, which is a heavy curse. The less a person thinks and inquires regarding the why and the wherefore and the justice of things, when dragging along through life, the happier it is for him, and doubly, trebly so, for her.
Miles Franklin
#21. There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.
Miles Franklin
#22. It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.
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#23. 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?
Miles Franklin
#24. Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
Miles Franklin
#25. Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does ...
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#26. It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.
Miles Franklin
#27. life itself is anything beyond a heartless little chimera- it is as real in its weariness and bitter heartache
Miles Franklin
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