Christina Stead (17 July 1902 – 31 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. She was born in Rockdale, New South Wales, and died in Sydney.
Famous quotes by christina stead:
“It is a fruitful island of the sea-world, a great Ithaca, there parched and stony and here trodden by flocks and curly- headed bulls and heavy with thick-set grain.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“Each Australian is a Ulysses.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“Strange is the influence of Marx on character.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)