Germaine Greer Quotes - Page 4

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• If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

  Germaine Greer

  Baby, Thinking, Blood

  "The Female Eunuch". Book by Germaine Greer, 1970.

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• There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

  Germaine Greer

  Coffee, Home, Men

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

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Culture, Care

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• As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Taken, Parenting

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

  Germaine Greer

  Mom, Mother, Opportunity

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• A garden is the best alternative therapy.

  Germaine Greer

  Garden, Religion, Alternatives

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• continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Years, Perfect

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• Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

  Germaine Greer

  Hate, Women, Memorable

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

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• Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

  Germaine Greer

  Class, Evolution, Charming

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• I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Thinking, Sin

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• Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Sorry, Stress

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

  Germaine Greer

  Lust, Energy, Lechery

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.10, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well

  Germaine Greer

  Children, War, Love You

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• It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Organization, Personality

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• No sex is better than bad sex.

  Germaine Greer

  Funny, Sexy, Sex

  "Sex and Destiny". Book by Germaine Greer, 1984.

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• War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

  Germaine Greer

  War, Faces, Defeat

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

  Germaine Greer

  Determination, Women, Mean

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.

  Germaine Greer

  Curves, Human Body, Bosoms

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Drug, Sexuality

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Luxury, House

  Germaine Greer (2014). “The Whole Woman”, p.162, Random House

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• The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

  Germaine Greer

  Gratitude, Jobs, Men

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

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• The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Wife, House

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• The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

  Germaine Greer

  Couple, Real, Struggle

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

  Germaine Greer

  Home, Australia, News

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• The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Struggle, Joy

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

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