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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.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well.
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Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
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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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If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
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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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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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Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.
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Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require educational practices and socializing agents even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.
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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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Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all it is time for the demolition to begin.
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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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I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
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