"It is agreed that little girls should have……" — Germaine Greer
"It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys."
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Germaine Greer
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128 Quotes by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer has 128 quotes on this site.
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
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Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
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A garden is the best alternative therapy.
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for…
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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
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The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
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Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental…
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Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only…
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As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones,…
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War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
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There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that…
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were…
— Lionel Blue
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
— C.S. Lewis
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Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate…
— Ronald Reagan
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
— C.S. Lewis
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
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You're not supposed to be admitted to America if you're likely to be a charge on the public - if…
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I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
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What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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