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Germaine Greer

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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.


— Germaine Greer


#confession #psychoanalysis #without

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.


— Germaine Greer


#oppressed #revolution

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.


— Germaine Greer


#backstage #been #corridors #get #hang

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.


— Germaine Greer


#cage #caged #child #compelled #does

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.


— Germaine Greer


#assumption #been #brotherhood #grounds #love

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


— Germaine Greer


#hearth #real #sex #theater #war

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.


— Germaine Greer


#always #made #means #men #nowadays

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


#festival #guide #joy #oppressed #path

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.


— Germaine Greer


#man #never #quite #tragedy

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.


— Germaine Greer


#never #security #such #thing






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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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