Germaine Greer Short Quotes

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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

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Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

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Men are animals and as such are entitled to humane treatment.

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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

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Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

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Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him...

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The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

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The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.

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This sequel to The Female Eunuch is the book I said I would never write.

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Love is the drug which... makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

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On British men:
Grubby and distinctly grey around the underwear region.

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No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

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As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

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Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

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An enema under the influence of Ecstasy would probably feel much like this.

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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

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The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.

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Orgasmism is a Western neurosis, but I say once you've had one, you've had them all.

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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

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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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Men ought to be more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight, and women less so.

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People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

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Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

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It is probably a truism that the end of one's sexual career is as incompetent as the beginning.

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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

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A woman's pleasure is not dependent upon the presence of a penis in the vagina; neither is a man's.

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English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

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Autumn can be golden, milder and warmer than summer, and is the most productive season of the year.

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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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