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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
Actor
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Melbourne
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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
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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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
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Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.
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I believe in permanent revolution.
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The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
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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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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
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