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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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Melbourne
Australia
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At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and handsome is as handsome does, she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.
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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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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.
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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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well
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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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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.Stewart B. JohnsonMen rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.
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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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Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
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Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
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Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother
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Next time round Hitler will be a machine.
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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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As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.
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