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Germaine Greer Inspirational Quotes (105)

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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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Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
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continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.
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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
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The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
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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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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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Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.
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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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My knees have always been ugly.
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Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.
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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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The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.
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Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.
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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
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Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.
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Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.
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Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.
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Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.
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As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.
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The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
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There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
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