Germaine Greer Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Reality, Deviousness

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

• Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to rejectthe consensus of opinionand find reassurance only in her arms is binding her mate to her with hoops of steel that will strangle them both.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Pride, Reality

• Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

  Germaine Greer

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

• Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Reality, Poetry

  Germaine Greer (1995). “Slip-shod sibyls: recognition, rejection and the woman poet”, Viking Pr

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