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Germaine Greer (Writer)

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
— Germaine Greer man
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
— Germaine Greer people
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
— Germaine Greer wit
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
— Germaine Greer you
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.
— Germaine Greer hope
Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.
— Germaine Greer men
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
— Germaine Greer man
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
— Germaine Greer love
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.
— Germaine Greer education
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
— Germaine Greer death
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
— Germaine Greer women
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
— Germaine Greer men
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
— Germaine Greer pleasure
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
— Germaine Greer wit
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
— Germaine Greer sex
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
— Germaine Greer life
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
— Germaine Greer pain
Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
— Germaine Greer self
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
— Germaine Greer sacrifice
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
— Germaine Greer war
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
— Germaine Greer women
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
— Germaine Greer man
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
— Germaine Greer personality
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
— Germaine Greer evolution
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
— Germaine Greer night

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