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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.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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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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