Ruth Park Quotes

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

Ruth Park

Tags: morning

What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.

Ruth Park

What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.

Ruth Park

Tags: feminism, girls

About Author

Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM (24 August 1917 – 14 December 2010) was a New Zealand–born Australian author. Her best known works are the novels The Harp in the South (1948) and Playing Beatie Bow (1980), and the children's radio serial The Muddle-Headed Wombat (1951–1970), which also spawned a book series (1962–1982).