QUOTES by Germaine Greer
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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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"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."
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"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."
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"Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism."
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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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"I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn."
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"The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over."
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"The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion."
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"Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it."
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"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them."
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"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well."
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"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men."
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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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"It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation."
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"The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood."
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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
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"Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood."
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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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"Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature."
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"If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
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"Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through."
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"What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine."
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"Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark."
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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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"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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"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement."
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"Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it."
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"The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee."
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