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Germaine Greer has 138 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
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A garden is the best alternative therapy.
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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…
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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
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The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
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Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
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Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only possible if…
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As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know…
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War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away…
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There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have…
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The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be…
— Theodor Adorno
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Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held…
— Michel Foucault
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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
— Victor Hugo
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The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy…
— Germaine Greer
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The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to…
— Anna Quindlen
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When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made…
— J R Ward
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What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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