Germaine Greer Quotes - Page 7

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• Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Facts, Disgusted

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could not bear the thought of their becoming children. In a just world this would be the case, but the world is far from just. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. Poverty has many faces; it may be the poverty of the young, the unmarried, the student, the unemployed, the female or a combination of these.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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

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• Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Sexy, Lust

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

  Germaine Greer

  Falling In Love, Sex, Men

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• The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

  Germaine Greer

  Hazards, Bunnies, Muscles

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

  Germaine Greer

  Cooking, Frightened

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• The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Real, War

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• Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

  Germaine Greer

  Divorce, Law, Parent

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• If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

  Germaine Greer

  War, Grief, Differences

  Germaine Greer (2014). “The Whole Woman”, p.228, Random House

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• Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.

  Germaine Greer

  Divorce, Interesting, Lovers

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

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• I believe in permanent revolution.

  Germaine Greer

  Believe, Revolution, Permanent

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• The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.

  Germaine Greer

  Needs, Revolution, Disappear

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude and nonsensical, and yet it is the staple myth of hundreds of comics called 'Sweethearts,' 'Romantic Secrets' and so forth. The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.

  Germaine Greer

  Lying, Heart, Kissing

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.

  Germaine Greer

  Children, Two, Goal

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

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• English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

  Germaine Greer

  Children, Adults, Lessons

  1970 Of the mother's subjugation to her family's demands. The Female Eunuch,'Love: Family'.

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• It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

  Germaine Greer

  Self, Evil, Our Society

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

  Germaine Greer

  Moon, Tides, Harmony

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• Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

  Germaine Greer

  Mean, Giving, Voting

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.138, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

  Germaine Greer

  People, Confusion, Circumstances

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

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• It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

  Germaine Greer

  Ideas, Support, Intellectual

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• My knees have always been ugly.

  Germaine Greer

  Ugly, Knees

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• Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.

  Germaine Greer

  Integrity, Survival, Principles

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.15, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

  Germaine Greer

  Hotel, Invited, Has Beens

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• Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Broken Heart, Kissing

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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