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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
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
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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 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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The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.
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Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise, many male children may be underdeveloped, or their genitals deformed or hidden and it is assumed that they are girls.
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Next time round Hitler will be a machine.
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Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.
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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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Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.
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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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Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.
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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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Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.
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The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
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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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Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother
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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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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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