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Love Quotes by Germaine Greer
- Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
- Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
- 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…
- 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…
- I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men…
- The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of…
- Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.
- The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.
- The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom ...
- Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.
- Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.
- Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her…
- Act quickly, think slowly.
- Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
- Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
- Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
- The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
- The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize…
- Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced…
- Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
- Security is the denial of life
- We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when…
- If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide