Husband Quotes by Germaine Greer

8 Husband quotes by Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer’s sharp commentary on gender dynamics is distilled into eight succinct thoughts on husbands, giving you a quick, incisive look at the role within relationships.

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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…

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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…

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The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is…

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In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the…

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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.

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Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in…

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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…

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Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are…

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Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

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If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment,…

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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…

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“Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.”

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It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of…

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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…

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It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases…

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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…

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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…

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