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Act quickly, think slowly.

Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.
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Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise, many male children may be underdeveloped, or their genitals deformed or hidden and it is assumed that they are girls.
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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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Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.
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If a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got?
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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
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Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.
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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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How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?
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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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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
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The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.
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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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It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.
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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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The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.
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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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