Quotes by Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin

… no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

Age

Mother

Problem

… we each have our fleeting hour.

Fleeting

Hours

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

Atheism

Atheist

Heart

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Art

Idiot

People

Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.

Bullying

Mean

Men

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.

Art

Class

Women

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.

Children

Civilization

Office

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

Bible

Coward

People

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.

Age

People

Would Be

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.

Clever

Girl

Husband

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Animal

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Atheist

Autobiography

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Breathing

Bullying

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Change

Cheer

Children

Civilization

Class

Clever

Condemnation

Couple

Coward

Culture

Design

Desire

Earthquakes

Female

Fire

Fleeting

Friendship

Generations

Girl

Grandpa

Growing Up

Heart

Hours

Husband

Idiot

Indirect

Invisible

Law

Long

Love Is

May

Mean

Men

Money

Mother

Nature

Office

Parent

People

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Quotes by Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin

… no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

… we each have our fleeting hour.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.

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.

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.

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

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.

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.

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