Germaine Greer

Date of Birth:

29-Jan-1939

Nationality:

Australia

Profession:

A tall writer who saw the news touching the media by looking closely as women clung to her in her book The Female Eunuch (1970). Her childhood was a happy one, and she ran away from home twice in search of the happiness that drove her home. Convinced that she could pursue a career in art, music, and literature , she was honored with English and French Literature at Melbourne University, and went on to study at Cambridge University in England. She received a Ph.D. and became a lecturer at the University of Warwick. She wrote essays and appeared on television programs while teaching about the Elizabethan-Jacobean drama, but last met local people at the time, appearing to be unpopular with the Dutch magazine he was its founder. When we recruited a book publishing company in 1968, it began to incorporate paper into its mind, eventually publishing The Female Eunuch (1970), The Women's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings, 1968-85 (background paper, in -1990) Seventh's Century Anthology for Women Seventh (1989), Women, Gender, & Desire: Understanding Your Gender in All Stages of Life (1996), and The The Woman Woman (1999), among others.

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QUOTES BY Germaine Greer

"A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity."

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

"The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee."

"Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it."

"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement."

"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."

"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release."

"I think that testosterone is a rare poison."

"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."

"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."

"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."