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Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.
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I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.
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continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.
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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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Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.
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Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
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Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.
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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
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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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