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Germaine Greer

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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.


— Germaine Greer


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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.


— Germaine Greer


#egotism #enlarged #fellow #fellow men #his

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.


— Germaine Greer


#feel #imminent #imminent threat #man #maximum

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.


— Germaine Greer


#fertility #functions #important #management #most

Act quickly, think slowly.


— Germaine Greer


#quickly #slowly #think

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.


— Germaine Greer


#employee #her #house #husband #permanent

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


#creating #female #feminine #ought #personality

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.


— Germaine Greer


#may #night #path #reach #save

Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.


— Germaine Greer


#ever #home #huge #news #newspapers

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.


— Germaine Greer


#pleasure #spontaneity






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They put me in touch with the basic texts and I found out what the internal logic was about how I felt and thought. She also posed nude for Oz on the understanding that the male editors would do likewise: they did not. Girls are feminised from childhood by being taught rules that subjugate them Germaine Greer argued.

She is also the author of many other books including Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984); The Change: Women Ageing and the Menopause (1991); Shakespeare's Wife (2007); and The Whole Woman (1999). Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her book The Female Eunuch became an international best-seller in 1970 turning her into a household name and bringing her both adulation and opposition. In contrast Greer sees equality as mere assimilation and "settling" to live the lives of "unfree men".

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