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Woman Quotes by Germaine Greer
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her…
- Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most…
- Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in…
- The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
- At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as…
- 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…
- Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
- Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
- Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they…
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- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
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- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels… — Jane Austen
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it… — Jane Austen
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall