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The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
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In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.
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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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After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.
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The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
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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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The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
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Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.
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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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The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.
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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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Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.
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Security is the denial of life
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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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No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.
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I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.
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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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