Germaine Greer quotes

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. (Germaine Greer)
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. View quote
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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. View quote
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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. View quote
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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. View quote
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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood. View quote
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Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. View quote
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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. View quote
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Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run? View quote
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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. View quote
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Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. (Germaine Greer)
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. View quote
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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. View quote
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. View quote
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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. View quote
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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. View quote
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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. View quote
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The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy. View quote
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it. View quote
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