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There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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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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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
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The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.
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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
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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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Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.
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The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
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It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.
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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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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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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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Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
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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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.
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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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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.
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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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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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