"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense……" — Germaine Greer
"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men."
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128 Quotes by Germaine Greer
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- All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
- Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
- A garden is the best alternative therapy.
- Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for…
- Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
- The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
- Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental…
- Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only…
- As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones,…
- War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
- Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
- There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that…