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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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As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.
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The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.
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Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.
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Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.
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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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Next time round Hitler will be a machine.
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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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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.
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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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If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.
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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
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