Germaine Greer quotes - page 3

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. (Germaine Greer)
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. View quote
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Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them. View quote
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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. View quote
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The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth. View quote
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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? View quote
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The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world. View quote
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The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all. View quote
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Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. View quote
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche. View quote
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Act quickly, think slowly. View quote
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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. View quote
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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living. View quote
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I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them. (Germaine Greer)
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover. View quote
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All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. View quote
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War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests. View quote
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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. View quote
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