"The wedding is the chief ceremony of the……" — Germaine Greer
"The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow."
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Germaine Greer
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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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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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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that…
— Jimmy Carter
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In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As…
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won…
— Amy Chua
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.)…
— Carl Sagan
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us…
— Robert D. Hales
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved.…
— Lloyd Alexander
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After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension…
— Henry David Thoreau
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but…
— Florence Nightingale
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