31 Quotes by Catherine Helen Spence

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.

My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire.

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.