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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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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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The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well.
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The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.
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The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.
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Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
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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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Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.
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War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
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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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As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.
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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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