Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is … - Miles Franklin

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I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first. " They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.

Miles Franklin

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.

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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?

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