Germaine Greer Quotes - Page 5

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• There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

  Germaine Greer

  Change, Memorable, Has Beens

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Breathing, Listening

  1970 The Female Eunuch,'Love: Security'.

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• 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

  Educational, Responsibility, Practice

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Struggle, Order

  The Female Eunuch (1970)

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

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Women, Heart

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Snares, Ability

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• Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth. These circumstances include the ambiance created by the other, lesser artists of their own time, who have all done their part in creating the pressure that forces up an exceptional talent. Unjustly, but unavoidably, the very closeness of a great artist to his colleagues and contemporaries leads to their eclipse.

  Germaine Greer

  Spring, Artist, Creating

  Germaine Greer (2001). “The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work”, p.134, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage, Clever, Husband

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

  Germaine Greer

  Important, Fertility, Management

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

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• If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

  Germaine Greer

  Economics, Structure, Collapse

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

  Germaine Greer

  World, Slavery, Abandonment

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• 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

  Mother, Song, Children

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.115, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.

  Germaine Greer

  Work, Play, Favors

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Spiritual, Pain, Athlete

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• After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Female, Remember

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• One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

  Germaine Greer

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Night

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• Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.

  Germaine Greer

  Sweet, Pigs, May

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• In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

  Germaine Greer

  Home, Library, World

  Daddy,We Hardly Knew You (1989)

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

  Germaine Greer

  Virtue, Measure For Measure

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.67, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Exorcism, Gender

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• Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage, Jobs

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Loss, Survival

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

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• Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

  Germaine Greer

  Military, Real, Hero

  "Daddy, We Hardly Knew You". Book by Germaine Greer, 1989.

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• I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

  Germaine Greer

  Mom, Children, Dad

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• Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

  Germaine Greer

  Self, Mistress, Likeable

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