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Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
Australian Activist
Born: Jan 29, 1939
Man Men Will Woman Women You
Related authors: Cesar Chavez Emmeline Pankhurst Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Germaine Greer
Loneliness Communicate Someone More Never Cruel Felt Close Than Who
Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run? Germaine Greer
Woman Walk Will Shoes Herself Run Could Never Takes Know She Got How How Far Go Off Might Far Lets Ever Fast Her
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive. Germaine Greer
Respect Blame Women People Behavior Live Other Earn Tell Unattractive Born Husbands Take Failed Because Without Fancy Them Themselves Apology Lives Raised Treated
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. Germaine Greer
Path Dawn Reach May Night Save
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee. Germaine Greer
Wife Husband Security Unpaid Employee House Return Permanent Being Her
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Germaine Greer
Revolution Oppressed Festival
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover. Germaine Greer
Fight Women Hoover Out Onto Get Behind Board Them Vacuum
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
Love Song Mother Bird Cage Caged Does Sings Nor Child Loves Justify Enforcement Compelled Her
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. Germaine Greer
Freedom Sacrifice Must Temporary Betray Protected Measure Even Fragile
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. Germaine Greer
Together Women Made Men Nowadays Sight Rank Talking Always Uneasy Subversion Means
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them. Germaine Greer
Evolution Out Classes About Charming Most Always Died Upper Them Things
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
Love Woman Women Thought Sex Men Fall Lover Damn Would Would-Be Wished Mess Principally Because Always Been Any Interested Loving Sane
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
Good Survival Natural Energy Spend Though Catastrophe Environment Perhaps Deal Get Trying Human Good Deal Even Away Programmed
I think that testosterone is a rare poison. Germaine Greer
Rare Poison Think Testosterone
The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth. Germaine Greer
War Sex Real Domestic Hearth Theater
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
Sad Women Men Following Fact Lead Never Sad Fact Most Women Are Often Disgusted Themselves
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. Germaine Greer
Invent Human Human Beings Inalienable Inalienable Right Themselves Beings Right
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
Home News World Rest Worst Unwelcome Huge Australia Where Newspapers Pages Ever
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men. Germaine Greer
Culture Care Men Sense Other About Only Really English Homosexual Basically
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
Struggle Women Joy Path Revolution Guide Correctness Take Surest Oppressed Festival
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation. Germaine Greer
Me Strange Women Free Difficulty Strikes Liberation Sector Enterprise About Could Free Trade Support Idea Most Also Trade Private Private Enterprise Intellectual Private Sector Very Whereas Lending Found
Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage. Germaine Greer
You Backstage Corridor Hotel Invited Around Been Get Hang
It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man. Germaine Greer
Great You Man Book Enemy Own Defensive Great Book Philistine Worst Recognize Dream Admit Absolutely He Catch Like Him His Norman Norman Mailer American American Dream Really Help Position

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