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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.
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The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
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English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.
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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.
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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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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
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It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.
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I believe in permanent revolution.
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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
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The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
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