"The housewife is an unpaid worker in her……" — Germaine Greer
"The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum of the employee who accepts a lower wage in return for permanence of his employment. But the lowest paid employees can be and are laid off, and so are wives. They have no savings, no skills which they can bargain with elsewhere, and they must bear the stigma of having been sacked."
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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…
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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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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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