Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greeris an Australian-born writer, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. She lives in the United Kingdom, where she has held academic positions, specializing in English literature, at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth29 January 1939
CountryAustralia
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite.
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Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.
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Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older people boring or slow. Older people have a right to resist being rushed, to stand and stare at the fragile world that has become so unspeakably dear to them. For the lucky ones, who will not have to leave while they are still in love with life, there will come a later time when that passion too will fade, but while one is still possessed by that great tenderness, it must be yielded to.
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Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
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Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
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. Probably the biggest omission though is the Beatles tour 1964! Undoubtedly there are many more....
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Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother
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Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.
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She became the character she was playing in an Ibsen play; she'd stalk around with grey hair. She was also the meanest woman in the world.
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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
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Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
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It's also an oxymoron because what we see is not real,
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It was as if we were playing Manhunt. It was a kind of lethal darts match.