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No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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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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Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.
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