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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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Melbourne
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The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
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We still make love to organs and not people that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when they make love, we re never more incommunicative, never more alone.
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Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
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How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?
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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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Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.
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Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require educational practices and socializing agents even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.
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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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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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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
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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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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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Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.
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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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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
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