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“Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.” quote by Germaine Greer — Download Open image

“Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.”

Germaine Greer

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“Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her…

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Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks…

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“Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.”

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Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

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If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment,…

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Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a…

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“Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.”

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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 personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something…

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Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try…

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Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming…

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The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was…

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Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us…

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You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest…

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Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

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Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top…

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Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying…

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