"So far it has been assumed that the……" — Germaine Greer
"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 not bear the thought of their becoming children. In a just world this would be the case, but the world is far from just. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. Poverty has many faces; it may be the poverty of the young, the unmarried, the student, the unemployed, the female or a combination of these."
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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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Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only…
— Germaine Greer
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In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a…
— Randy Alcorn
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In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on…
— Jonathan Alter
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I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to…
— Richard Dawkins
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If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person…
— Pope Francis
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"Let's say we discover the gene that says the kid's gonna be gay. How many parents, if they knew before…
— Rush Limbaugh
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As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a…
— James W. Loewen
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Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort…
— Tim Tharp
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Society as a whole must defend the conceived child's right to life and the true good of the woman who…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A young pregnant wife has been hospitalized for a simple attack of appendicitis. The doctors had to apply ice to…
— Andrea Bocelli
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A girl conceived in China has to run an eerie kind of gauntlet if she is to survive. many parents…
— Steven W. Mosher
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