Germaine Greer Quotes - Page 6

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• The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.

  Germaine Greer

  Treatment, Jaded, Sensibility

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.57, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

  Germaine Greer

  Choices, Parent, Alternatives

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

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• 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

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• The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Female, Buttocks

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

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• We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

  Germaine Greer

  Communication, Community, Age

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

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• The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.

  Germaine Greer

  Rip, Hippie, Ambition

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.121, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.

  Germaine Greer

  Necks, Bosoms

  1970 The Female Eunuch,'Body: Curves'.

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• There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

  Germaine Greer

  Past, Needs, Littles

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

  Germaine Greer

  Benefits, Pot, Authority

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.4, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Boys, Should Have

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

  Germaine Greer

  Abortion, Privilege, Insult

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• Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

  Germaine Greer

  Children, Real, Occupation

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

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• Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

  Germaine Greer

  Soccer, Art, Culture

  1996 In The Independent, 28 Jun.

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• Next time round Hitler will be a machine.

  Germaine Greer

  Machines, Next, Next Time

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.83, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Men, Energy

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives.

  Germaine Greer

  Life Changing, Book, Ordinary

  "Germaine Greer" by Laura Miller, www.salon.com. June 22, 1999.

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• Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage, Husband, Women

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

  Germaine Greer

  Gambling, Two, Australia

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• A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.

  Germaine Greer

  Time, Children, Ignorance

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Home, Needs

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Delight, Body

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• Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

  Germaine Greer

  Brother, Average, Crushed

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

  Germaine Greer

  Jealousy, Men, Amour

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

  Germaine Greer

  Struggle, Motherhood, Umbilical Cord

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

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• Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Generosity, Addiction

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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