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I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
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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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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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My knees have always been ugly.
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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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The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.
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Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
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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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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
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The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.
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Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.
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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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The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
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If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.
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