Germaine Greer Quotes

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• All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade…
• Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
• A garden is the best alternative therapy.
• 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…
• Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
• The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
• Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
• Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only possible if there are genuine…
• As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love…
• War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
• Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have…
• There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women…
• There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
• The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is…
• Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and…
• A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn…
• Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.
• Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.
• Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw…
• Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What…

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