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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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Essence
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Spontaneity
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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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The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.
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In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.
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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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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
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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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I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.
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Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement he is a ranter.
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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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Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.
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