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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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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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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well
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Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.
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Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.
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Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
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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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I believe in permanent revolution.
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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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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
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As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.
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We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.
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