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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out it's one of the most charming things about them.
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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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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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