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Germaine Greer Quotes
«The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee»
«Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.»
«After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. Though feminists have been arguing for years that there is a self-defining female energy, and a female libido that is not expressed merely in response to demands by the male, and a female way of being and of experiencing the world, we are still not close to understanding what it might be. Yet every mother who has held a girl child in her arms has known that she was different from a boy child and that she would approach the reality around her in a different way. She is a female and she will die female, and though many centuries should pass, archaeologists would identify her skeleton as the remains of a female creature.»
Author: Germaine Greer
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archaeologist, archaeologists, arguing, conditioning, defining, experiencing, femaleness, female child, femininity, feminists, girlishness, identify, libido, response, skeleton, skeletons
«Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.»
Author: Germaine Greer
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closer, contact, deprived, deprived of, idealism, recompense, recompenses, recompensing
«If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism»
«What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.»
«Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.»
Author: Germaine Greer
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abolish, abolishes, authoritarian, get on, get on with, liberation, Marx, patriarchal, substructure, willy-nilly
«Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.»
«Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.»
Author: Germaine Greer
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admitted, agitation, conservatives, demolition, humanitarian, professions, reformist, undermining, vaguely