Best Quotes by Germaine Greer (Top 10)
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
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It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.
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Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
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I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people's ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy " when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it's women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation.
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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
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The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked.
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
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More Germaine Greer Quotes
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Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
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I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.
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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
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I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
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Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.
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All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
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Love, love, love " all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
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Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
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There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.
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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
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There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
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Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
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