Germaine Greer Quotes - Page 2

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• Act quickly, think slowly.

  Germaine Greer

  Wisdom, Thinking

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

  Germaine Greer

  Mean, Men, Sight

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Women, Eye

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• I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

  Germaine Greer

  Angel, Men, Secret

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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

  Germaine Greer

  Happiness, People, Facts

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• The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

  Germaine Greer

  Hurt, Regret, Women

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, 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.

  Germaine Greer

  People, World, May

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• If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.

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  Real, Love Is, Self

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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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.

  Germaine Greer

  Spring, Sadness, Creative

  Germaine Greer (2014). “The Whole Woman”, p.217, Random House

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• Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

  Germaine Greer

  Feminism, States, Liberation

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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

  Germaine Greer

  Thinking, Toilets, Bladder

  "Newsnight Review", July 24, 2009.

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• The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

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  Love, Mother, Father

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.26, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• 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?

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  Love, Running, High Heels

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• The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Privilege, Enjoy

  "The Madwoman's Underclothes". Book by Germaine Greer, 1986.

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• Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

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  Children, Exercise, Fertility

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

  Germaine Greer

  Wisdom, Lonely, Loneliness

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

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  Love, Women, Hair

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• Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.

  Germaine Greer

  Mistake, Women, Agitation

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Fun, Men

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• Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

  Germaine Greer

  Reading, Sleep, Vices

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• Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

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  Peace, Betrayal, Freedom

  Germaine Greer (1971). “The female eunuch”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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

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  Men, Tragedy, Never Quit

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.80, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.

  Germaine Greer

  Zoos, Thinking, Animal

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.

  Germaine Greer

  Ideas, Monogamy, Lifelong

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