2013 HSC COURSE

You keep your paws clean for the undergraduates!

have...any?

...it will be ...maybe

we asked you to speak about women and fiction

to offer you an opinion on one minor point

to contain more truth than fact

mary seton, Mary carmichael or by any other name you please

until - you know the little tug - the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one's line

he was a beadle; i wasa woman. This was the turf; there was the path

They had sent my little fish into hiding

is often as beautiful as the inside

what a difference a tail makes

who did look a little absurd, poor beast, without a tail, in the middle of the lawn

to close with gentle finality behind me

as agog to see the world as her was. but she was not sent to school. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic

as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

she is all but absent from history."

who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

also attracts agreeable essayists, light-fingered novelists, young men who have taken the M.A. degree; men who have taken no degree; men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women

to the effect that nothing could be expected of women intellectually

perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people,

how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been

Powdering their noses? Looking in at shop windows?

and disposed of according to my husband's wisdom—perhaps to found a scholarship in Balliol or Kings

for the large and imposing figure of a gentleman, which Milton recommended for my perpetual adoration, a view of the open sky

And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. [...] Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry

as I can the train of thought that led me to think [that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction]

picking up unhindered and uncensored all that varied experience of human life which served him so splendidly when he came to write his books.

A scene in a battlefield is more important than a scene in a shop.

and the European war which opened the doors to the average woman some sixty years later, these evils are in the way to be bettered

to lie across the page. It was a straight dark bar, a shadow shaped something like the letter "I."

then [...] the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down