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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
Actor
Broadcaster
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Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Professor
Screenwriter
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Melbourne
Australia
Rose Blight
Dr. G
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Internet
Women
Men
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Shipping
Forecasts
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As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
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War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
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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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The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
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English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.
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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
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Next time round Hitler will be a machine.
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Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.
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I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.
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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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.
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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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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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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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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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I believe in permanent revolution.
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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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