Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. Like beasts, for example, who are castrated in farming in order to serve their master's ulterior motives — to be fattened or made docile — women have been cut off from their capacity for action. It's a process that sacrifices vigour for delicacy and succulence, and one that's got to be changed.


As quoted in "Germaine Greer — Opinions That May Shock the Faithful" by Judith Weinraub in The New York Times (22 March 1971)

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Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. Like...

Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. Like...

Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. Like...

Women have somehow been separated from their libido, from their faculty of desire, from their sexuality. They've become suspicious about it. Like...