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The climacteric marks the end of apologizing. The chrysalis of conditioning has once for all to break and the female woman finally to emerge.
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Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.
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I didn't fight to get women out from behind the vacuum cleaner to get them onto the board of Hoover.
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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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Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.
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Our whole lives are lived in a tangle of telling, not telling, misleading, allowing to know, concealing, eavesdropping and collusion. When Washington said he could not tell a lie, his father must have answered, 'You had better learn.'
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The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.
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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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The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
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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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The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.
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If I had to breed with either [Norman Mailer or Teddy Kennedy], it might be just as well if the world came to a halt immediately.
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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behaviour, 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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Men ought to be more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight, and women less so.
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Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.
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An enema under the influence of Ecstasy would probably feel much like this.
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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
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Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own homes.
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The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.
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The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.
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The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.
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Love, love love — all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
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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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Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
January 29, 1939
(age 85)
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Germaine Greer is an Australian-born writer, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century.
Known for:
The Female Eunuch (1970)
The Whole Woman (1999)
White Beech: The Rainforest Years (2013)
Daddy, we hardly knew you (1989)
The Beautiful Boy (2003)
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