People Quotes by Germaine Greer

8 People quotes by Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer’s eight brief statements on people pack her trademark boldness into a compact set. Each line offers a sharp, often provocative glimpse into her view of social dynamics.

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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…

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Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older…

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We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more…

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

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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…

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I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have…

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People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

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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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

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“Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her…

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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…

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“Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.”

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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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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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