It is most oppressive to be an aunt. - Christina Stead - Quotesmemo.com

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Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly. . . perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant.

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Christina Stead

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

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