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Women Quotes by Germaine Greer
- Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only possible if there are genuine…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt…
- Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the…
- So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could…
- 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…
- Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by…
- Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they…
- If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness…
- Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual…
- The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and…
- There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
- The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it…
- Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor…
- Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.
- All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood