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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936.

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

Atheism, Atheist, Heart, Hopeless, Understand

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.

Attributes, Bullying, Critical, Mean, Men, Semblance

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, Company, Demotion, People, Would Be

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.

Common, Couple, Nails, Piano, Sadness, Unto

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

Animal, Grow, Growing Up, Irreplaceable, Nature, Vegetable

I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.

Born, Companionship, Design, Things, Wish, Would Be

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Beings, Fundamental, Money, Relationship, Smile, Tell

there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

Direct, Indirect, Invisible, Law, Things

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

Bible, Coward, Drag, People, Proper, Theirselves

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.

Nothing, Parent, Parents, Thinking, Two, Wrong

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.

Cold, Firm, Friendship, Inhuman, Love Is, Real

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, Detail, Mere, Office, Passing

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

Hated, People, Self Reliance, Sometimes, Worth

Grandpa. . . was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

Cheer, Dear, Grandpa, Men, Old

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.

Change, Considered, Long, Platform, Thinking

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

Art, Egotism, Idiot, Idiots, People, Perhaps

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

Careers, Children, Clever, Competition, Relinquish, Time

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.

Chicken, Generation, Generations, Owes, Wise, Years

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.

Conceive, Percentage, Selfish, Shoes, Small, Views

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.

Assured, Creation, Heart, Life, Treasure, Two

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