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Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
Actor
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Feminist
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Melbourne
Australia
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