"The tragedy of machismo is that a man……" — Germaine Greer
"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."
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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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Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of…
— Stan Goff
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity,…
— Alain de Botton
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One reason (among many) that women may well take over the world of "virtual enterprises" is that they seem to…
— Tom Peters
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Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning…
— Dick Gephardt
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In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against…
— Yoko Ono
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The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have…
— Jimmy Buffett
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Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile…
— Lorrie Moore
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It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed…
— Trevanian
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My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo…
— Kevin Smith
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The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a…
— Unknown Author
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He exists in the public mind as bits and pieces of his characters-Butch Cassidy's charm, Ben Quick's machismo, Cool Hand…
— Maureen Dowd
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Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could…
— Dan Brown
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