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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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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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Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out it's one of the most charming things about them.
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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.
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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
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It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.
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The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.
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If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.
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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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Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
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The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.
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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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It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.
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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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Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.
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The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.
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I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
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Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.
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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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