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Germaine Greer Quotes

Germaine Greer quotes

Australian Activist January 29, 1939

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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
It is agreed that little girls should have a different physical education than little boys, but it is not admitted how much of the difference is counseled by the conviction that little girls should not look like little boys. Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer quote: "Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other..."
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. Germaine Greer
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer quote: "Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average..."
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. Germaine Greer
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role Germaine Greer
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. Germaine Greer
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are... Germaine Greer
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women. Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer quote: "Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother."
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer quote: "Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother."
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. Germaine Greer
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer quote: "English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the..."
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men. Germaine Greer
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. Germaine Greer
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. Germaine Greer

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