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I believe in permanent revolution.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
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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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Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out it's one of the most charming things about them.
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Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of 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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Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.
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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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English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.
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Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.
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