Germaine Greer Quotes - Page 6

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• Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require "educational practices and socializing agents" even more effective than the ones that have been relentlessly loading female humans with responsibility for other people's behavior from their earliest childhood.

  Germaine Greer

  Educational, Responsibility, Practice

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

  Germaine Greer

  Soccer, Art, Culture

  1996 In The Independent, 28 Jun.

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• 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?

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Struggle, Order

  The Female Eunuch (1970)

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• The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Female, Buttocks

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.

  Germaine Greer

  Necks, Bosoms

  1970 The Female Eunuch,'Body: Curves'.

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• Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth. These circumstances include the ambiance created by the other, lesser artists of their own time, who have all done their part in creating the pressure that forces up an exceptional talent. Unjustly, but unavoidably, the very closeness of a great artist to his colleagues and contemporaries leads to their eclipse.

  Germaine Greer

  Spring, Artist, Creating

  Germaine Greer (2001). “The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work”, p.134, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives.

  Germaine Greer

  Life Changing, Book, Ordinary

  "Germaine Greer" by Laura Miller, www.salon.com. June 22, 1999.

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• Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

  Germaine Greer

  Gambling, Two, Australia

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• Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Home, Needs

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Delight, Body

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• Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

  Germaine Greer

  Jealousy, Men, Amour

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

  Germaine Greer

  Brother, Average, Crushed

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

  Germaine Greer

  Struggle, Motherhood, Umbilical Cord

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Female, Remember

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• Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Generosity, Addiction

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Facts, Disgusted

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Sexy, Lust

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

  Germaine Greer

  Falling In Love, Sex, Men

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• The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Real, War

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• Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.

  Germaine Greer

  Divorce, Interesting, Lovers

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could not bear the thought of their becoming children. In a just world this would be the case, but the world is far from just. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. Poverty has many faces; it may be the poverty of the young, the unmarried, the student, the unemployed, the female or a combination of these.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

  "Sex and Destiny". Book by Germaine Greer, 1984.

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• Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

  Germaine Greer

  Cooking, Frightened

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• Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

  Germaine Greer

  Divorce, Law, Parent

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• The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

  Germaine Greer

  Hazards, Bunnies, Muscles

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I believe in permanent revolution.

  Germaine Greer

  Believe, Revolution, Permanent

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