"The castration of women has been carried out……" — Germaine Greer
"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 into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern."
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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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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild…
— Casey Affleck
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I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of…
— Jo Brand
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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player.…
— Greg Norman
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As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of…
— Johan Galtung
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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages.…
— Barney Frank
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I think we came out the last couple of game and have been able to get it going. The first…
— Jarome Iginla
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Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.
— Earl Blaik
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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain,…
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