Germaine Greer Quotes - Page 8

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• At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Men, Doe

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise, many male children may be underdeveloped, or their genitals deformed or hidden and it is assumed that they are girls.

  Germaine Greer

  Girl, Nature, Children

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Germaine Greer

  Agony, Creating, Personality

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.

  Germaine Greer

  Time, Children, Ignorance

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

  Germaine Greer

  Believe, Long, Missing

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.16, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage, Husband, Women

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Men, Energy

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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