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Inspiration October 3, 2017
"Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings."
Miles Franklin, born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, already wrote and published her most famous novel, “My Brilliant Career” by the age of 22.
Later, she took on jobs from secretary to cook before dedicating herself to supporting Australian female writers. She joined the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the Sydney P.E.N Club and encouraged writers such as Jean Devanny, Sumner Locke Elliot and Ric Throssell.
Her efforts in helping Australian writers didn’t stop after her death. In her will, she requested for her estate to be used to establish the prestigious literary award known as The Miles Franklin Award.
Since Franklin believed in using your platform to help others and incite change, we compiled a list of famous Miles Franklin quotes to show the importance of women supporting women.
“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.”
“Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary – someone 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.”
“It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.”
“I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.”
“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”
“It’s a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.”
“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?”
Miles Franklin paved a way for women artists to feel comfortable in the literature world. She reminds us that, by building other women up, we’re also building ourselves up.
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